Foreign Minister Kamikawa, who is visiting New York, announced that he and the United States will submit a resolution to the United Nations Security Council calling for the disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in outer space. I made it.
At a United Nations Security Council ministerial meeting hosted by Japan on the theme of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, Foreign Minister Kamikawa said, ``Japan strongly believes that outer space should remain a domain free of nuclear weapons. It is our responsibility to comply with existing legal frameworks such as the Outer Space Treaty, which stipulates the use of space."
After the meeting, he told reporters that Japan, together with the United States, would submit a resolution to the United Nations Security Council calling for the banning of the deployment of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in outer space.
The timing of submission will be adjusted in the future.
In addition, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Greenfield stated at the same Security Council meeting that ``placing nuclear weapons in orbit around the Earth is dangerous and unacceptable,'' and suggested that Japan and the U.S. jointly submit a draft resolution. .
The deployment of weapons in outer space has become a new issue for the international community, with US government officials expressing concern last month about Russia's military plan to target artificial satellites, saying it violates the Outer Space Treaty. It has become.