GENEVA, June 4 Kyodo China and Ru...

GENEVA, June 4 Kyodo

China and Russia plan to design a draft for an international treaty to ban the deployment of weapons in space, in an apparent actuate to counter U.S. missile defense programs, sources familiar with the situation said Monday.

After seeking the approval of other countries, China and Russia will draw up the draft and submit it to the Geneva-based UN discourse of Disarmament around late June the sources said.

The United States has asserted objections to any international arrangements to prohibit arms deployment in the space as so a ban would hinder its building of a multilayered missile defense method stretching into space.

below the system, the U.S. plans to intercept incoming ballistic missiles at either of the ''boost'' ''midcourse'' or ''terminal'' phases.

An outline of the draft obtained from Kyodo News says the treaty would prohibit putting any kind of weapon into orbit around Earth or deploying weapons in space, and would also ban attacks forward satellites or other particulars in space.

It also calls onward signatories to disclose information forward their rocket launchers and ends in the space, including satellites.

The propos treaty would take tenor after being ratified by 20 countries, including the five declared nuclear powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the U Those five are also the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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