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ESPI Summary: (PDF)

Read our European Space Preservation Initiative Summary. Acknowledge the diverse implications of the Space Preservation Treaty and realize the extense possibilities of EU-European Union's States guiding the world with its example, signing and presenting ratification instruments to the Depositary of the UN-United Nations, the Secretary-General of the UN; the legislation that will ban ALL space-based weapons, transform the weapons and warfare economy and industry into a New World Space Age Economy & Industry, based under international law, for the bennefit of all. Found an International Peace-Keeping Agency, a New World Security System and a long list of new products and services; appling existing solutions, with existing technologies, to the divers crisis we are involved in. NPAE/ICIS Europe: ESPI-European Space Preservation Initiative, ESPI Summary (PDF)

ESPI: e-Parliament:

Introduction of the Space Preservation Treaty into the discussion Panel of Experts and Legislators on Space Security, create debate on the various and profound implications of the Treaty, desglose the comparison of other ideas and pieces of legislations homólogous in the concerne of the regulations of the civil & militar activities in space, as projects for international law, under the United Nations; and invite European Leaders in working cooperatively to ban space-based weapons and transform the war economy and industry by signing and presenting ratification instruments to the UN Depositary, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. ¿What is the eParliament? (PDF) SPT at the Ideas DB on Space Security (eParliament)

China ASAT test reactions and questions: "

The news first announced Wednesday night that China tested an ASAT weapon last week, destroying a satellite, became one of the biggest stories internationally yesterday. The report was confirmed by a National Security Council spokesman yesterday morning, and by the end of the day the US and other countries, including Canada, Japan, Australia, and South Korea, had 'expressed concern' about the test. The Chinese have remained silent, with no news about the test in state-run media.

The test does raise several questions about which there has been a lot of speculation, but few firm answers:

Why did China conduct the test? The test took a lot of people by surprise (although apparently not in the US intelligence community, which believed that a test was imminent), both because of the bluntness of it and the fact that, prior to it, China had insisted it had no interest in space weapons and was pushing for a treaty to ban such devices. 'There’s nothing subtle about this,' Michael Krepon of the Stimson Center told the New York Times. Does this mean that China is no longer interested in a ban on such weapons, or is it an effort to get the attention of the US and force it to the negotiation table?

How will the Bush Administration respond? Will the US, in fact, reconsider its stance on PAROS, now that there is evidence of an 'arms race in space', or will it push the US to accelerate work on defensive and offensive counterspace systems? The Union of Concerned Scientists wants the US to take the former path, but that would involve a significant change of course from the current national space policy.

What about Congress? The House and Senate armed services committees will get classified briefings about the Chinese ASAT test today, Space News reports [subscription required]. One member of Congress, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, condemned the test in a statement but also called on the administration to negotiate a ban on space weapons. 'American satellites are the soft underbelly of our national security, and it is urgent that President Bush move to guarantee their protection by initiating an international agreement to ban the development, testing, and deployment of space weapons and anti-satellite systems.'

(Via Space Politics.)

China ASAT test reactions and questions

ICIS - Background: The Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) is a 501-C-3 tax-exempt, non-profit foundation whose mission is to educate about efforts to transform the space-based weapons R&D program and war industry into a world cooperative civil, commercial and military space R&D and exploration program and industry (and other industries) without the mandate to weaponize space. ICIS educates about the U.S. Space Preservation Act and the companion World Space Preservation Treaty. These documents can and will put a literal lid on the war industry while simultaneously allowing the civil, commercial, entrepreneurial and military space R&D and exploration programs to continue once the verifiable ban on space-based weapons has been passed into world and national U.S. law.

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