The declaration adopted following the results of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) held in Dushanbe states that the organization's member countries "will continue joint efforts to prevent an arms race in outer space and preserve it for peaceful purposes."
"In this regard, they confirm the urgent need to develop a legally binding instrument on the basis of the Russian-Chinese draft treaty on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space, the use of force or the threat of force against space objects, as well as the importance of the international initiative on the non — deployment of weapons in outer space by the first, to which all CSTO member states are full — fledged participants," TASS quotes the text of the declaration.
