Reaching Critical Will

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Conference on Disarmament

General Assembly First Committee

UN Disarmament Commission

Special Session on Disarmament

Outer Space
Official Documents

UN documents
Government documents

UN documents

General Assembly Resolutions
2010: A/RES/65/44, Prevention of an arms race in outer space
2010: A/RES/65/68, Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities
2009: A/RES/64/28, Prevention of an arms race in outer space
2009: A/RES/64/49, Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities
2008: A/RES/63/40, Prevention of an arms race in outer space
2008: A/RES/63/68, Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities
2007: A/RES/62/20, Prevention of an arms race in outer space
2007: A/RES/62/43, Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities
2006: A/RES/61/58, Prevention of an arms race in outer space
2006: A/RES/61/75, Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities
2005: A/C.1/60/L.27, Prevention of an arms race in outer space
2005: A/C.1/60/L.30/Rev.1, Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities
2004:A/RES/59/65, Prevention of an arms race in outer space
2003: A/RES/58/36, Prevention of an arms race in outer space

Open Ended Meeting hosted by China and the Russian Federation on PAROS 16 August 2005
Statements:
Russia - Ambassador Stotnikov
China - Ambassador Hu
Canada - Ambassador Meyer
Italy - Ambassador Tressa
Germany - Ambassador Brasack
Pakistan - Ambassador Khan
Kazakstan - Ambassador Abusseitov
India - Ambassador Prasad

Documents and Non-Papers regarding PAROS:
CD/1679 (June 28, 2002)
Compliation of Comments and Suggestions to the CD PAROS Working Paper (CD/1679)
UNIDIR Summary

CD Documents

26 March 2009: Canadian paper on “The Merits of Certain Draft Transparency and Confidence Building Measures and Treaty Proposals for Space Security,” introduced to the Conference on Disarmament on 26 March 2009
26 August 2008: United States' response to the Russia/China draft PPTW.
12 February 2008: Draft Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects (PPWT), submitted by Russia and China.
14 March 2007: "Compilation of Comments and Suggestions to the CD Working Paper on PAROS (CD/1679)," Third, revised and amended version as of 12 February 2007.
15 June 2006: Report from the UNIDIR Conference "Building the Architecture for Sustainible Space Security"
15 June 2006: Space-Based Verification: Paxsat A Then and Development Since (Canadien Working Paper)
9 June 2006: A gap analysis of existing international constraints on weaponsand activities applicable to the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space Agenda Item of the Conference on Disarmament. (Canadien Working Paper)
22 May 2006: Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures in Outer Space Activities and the Prevention of Placement of Weapons in Outer Space (China and Russia joint working paper)
22 May 2006: Definition Issues Regarding Legal Instruments on the Prevention of the Weaponization of Outer Space (China and Russia joint working paper)
22 May 2006: Existing International Legal Instruments and Prevention of the Weaponization of Outer Space (China and Russia joint working paper)
22 May 2006: Verification Aspects of PAROS (China and Russia joint working paper)
21-22 March 2005: "Safeguarding Space Security: Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space" (China, Russia, UNIDIR and The Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research joint working paper)

9 June 2005:"Definition Issues Regarding Legal Instruments on the Prevention of the Weaponization of Outer Space" (China and Russia joint non-paper)

25-26 March 2004: "Safeguarding Space for All: Security and Peaceful Uses" (report of workshop)

26 August 2004:"Verification Aspects of PAROS" (China and Russia joint non-paper)

26 August 2004:"Existing International Legal Instruments and Prevention of the Weaponization of Outer Space" (China and Russia joint non-paper)

27 June 2002:"Possible Elements for a Future International Legal Agreement on the Prevention of the Deployment of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat or Use of Force Against Outer Space Objects" (China, Russia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Belarus, Zimbabwe and Syria joint working paper)

2001: (CD/1606), "China’s Position on and Suggestions for Ways to Address the Issue of Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space at the Conference on Disarmament" (China working paper)

2000: (CD/1645), "Possible Elements of the Future International Legal Instrument on the Prevention of the Weaponization of Outer Space" (China working paper)

4 February 1999: (CD/1569), "Canada Proposal concerning CD action on outer space" (Canada working paper)

21 January 1998: (CD/1487), " Canada Working Paper Concerning CD Action On Outer Space" (Canada working paper)

1985: (CD/579), "Basic Position on the Prevention of an arms race in Outer Space" (China working paper)

Government documents

United States

U.S. National Space Policy, 28 June 2010
U.S. National Space Policy , 31 August 2006
Marcia S. Smith, "U.S. Space Programs: Civilian, Military, and Commercial," CRS Report (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Services, 19 November 2003)
Report of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, 11 January 2002 - provides the Commission’s assessment of the organization and management of space activities in support of U.S. national security.
U.S. Space Command's 'Long Range Plan' (1998)
Fact Sheet: National Space Policy (Washington, DC: The White House National Science and Technology Council, 19 September 1996)
Space Preservation Act of 2002
Introduced in the House of Representatives on 23 July 2003, 107th Congress, 2d session, H.R.3616
United States Space Command Vision for 2020
Office of Science and Technology Policy
NASA
United States Strategic Command
(1) http://www.stratcom.mil
(2) http://www.af.mil/
(3) http://www.dtic.mil/futurejointwarfare/
(4) http://www.spacecom.af.mil/usspace

Russia

Draft Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects (PPWT), submitted by Russia and China to the Conference on Disarmament, 12 February 2008
Seminar at the Space Research Institute (IKI), 17 January 2002.
Lt General Mikhail S. Vinogradov, "Prevention of Arms Deployment in Space," prepared for Eisenhower Institute Seminar, 17 January 2002.
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, "Weaponization of Space," speech before the UNGA, 26 September 2001.
Sergie Rogov, "Space Without Weapons: An Arena for Peaceful Cooperation in the 21st Century," Report (Moscow: International Conference, 11-14 April 2001)

European Union

EU Draft Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities, 8 December 2008
Introduced to the Conference on Disarmament on 12 February 2009
European Parliament resolution on Space and Security, 10 July 2008
(Article on the resolution: "Galileo Key to European Defense, Says Parliament," 11 July 2008)
"Space: a new European frontier for an expanding Union," White Paper (European Communities, 1995-2005)
"Green Paper on European Space Policy," European Communities, 21 January 2003.
European Space Policy

Foreign Affairs Canada: Outer Space
26 March 2009: Canadian paper on “The Merits of Certain Draft Transparency and Confidence Building Measures and Treaty Proposals for Space Security,” introduced to the Conference on Disarmament on 26 March 2009

China

Draft Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects (PPWT), submitted by Russia and China to the Conference on Disarmament, 12 February 2008