“It is difficult to make predictions, but I would like to express the hope that our practical cooperation will continue on a mutually beneficial basis ... We would still like to believe that our American colleagues will finally see contradictions in their own position when they accuse Russia of duplicity and inconsistencies - they say, Russia has carried out some kind of test, and meanwhile, is in favor of consolidating the Treaty on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space, "RIA Novosti Ryabkov quotes.
At the same time, he stated that “duplicity is precisely in the American position, because the Americans are doing exactly the same thing: they have conducted similar tests a long time ago and, in addition, they are conducting rather alarming test measures for the possible appearance of strike weapons in space, but nothing is offered to this in order to limit this matter. "
According to him, "they do not want to conduct any negotiations, they want to maintain their dominance in space in the military sphere."
“It annoys them if someone has systems that call such undivided American dominance and technological power into question.
And the combination of megalomania with an inferiority complex in the sphere of the impossibility of agreeing on something leads to such excesses in American rhetoric, ”the deputy minister added.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia believes that it is necessary to start coordinating an international legal instrument to prevent an arms race in outer space as soon as possible.