BEIJING, June 4 Kyodo China is lo...

BEIJING, June 4 Kyodo

China is lobbying countries around the world to support its joint proposal with Russia to draft an international treaty banning weapons in space, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Tuesday.

''We are seeking widespread opinions from different countries to make substantial progres toward concluding an international treaty at an early date,'' Liu told a regular novels briefing.

''China has consistently pressureed that the development and use of space should be completely for peaceful purposes''

Sources in Geneva revealed Monday that China and Russia are planning to draw up a draft banning space-based weapons to be submitted to the UN conversation on Disarmament in Geneva around late June

In order to take event the proposed treaty would ne to be ratified according to 20 countries, including the five declared nuclear powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.

The U however, facts to any international treaties banning the use of weapons in space through the whole extent of fears they could obstruct its building of a national missile defense regularity designed to bring down enemy missiles in flight.

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