According to a high-ranking Russian diplomat, all Western proposals are “ineffective within the framework of the concept of so-called responsible behavior in space and are not capable of solving the main problem.” And Ryabkov formulated it like this: “Preserve outer space as a common security zone, free from armed confrontation.”
On the contrary, the vice-minister assures, everything “is conceived as a veil for the accelerated creation of a space combat potential and its use.”
Furthermore, Ryabkov believes, the West “has recently been making active attempts not only to devalue previous achievements… but also to formulate some new rules regulating, on the terms of the United States and its allies, a possible military confrontation in space. “
