OREANDA-NEWS. October 9, 2009. Space shall not become a military arena, Vitaly Churkin, Russian Representative in UN stated during the meeting of the General Assembly First Committee.

"During this session of the General Assembly Russia intends to introduce draft resolution which generalizes the work on transparency development and enhancing the trust in space exploration", Churkin said.

Churkin also remended that Russia and China had presented joint project of the International Agreement on preventing weapons in space during Disarmamanent Conference in 2008.