“The administration’s idea that, in the US’s favorite“ coalition of interested ”format in recent years, is to develop space resources, and to add to this approach an element of a certain tension or, at least, an ambiguity in the approach to these security aspects, worries us ", - quotes him Interfax.
According to Ryabkov, such a position is characteristic of the United States, which act on the principle of "who is not with us, that is against us."
“Both on Earth and in space, there is one principle - he who is not with us is against us. And then - decide as you want. We have repeatedly said that there is an alternative - this is the development of collective agreements, ”said the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
He noted that unilateral methods have become the "hallmark" of American politics.
US President Donald Trump signed a decree on April 6 that secures the right of Americans to extract resources in space, including lunar ones.
In Roskosmos called this plan aggressive.
The head of the Space Policy Institute, Ivan Moiseev, in an interview with Vzglyad, commented on Trump’s decree on the extraction of space resources.