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SPACE PRESERVATION TREATY (English version)

A Code of Conduct for Outer Space – A Step Forward on Managing Satellite Traffic

TRATADO PARA PRESERVAR el ESPACIO EXTERIOR (Space Preservation Treaty - Spanish version)

IN MEMORIAM: Scientist, Space Activist, ICIS Chairman Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90

China, Russia to offer treaty to ban arms in space

NOTE: The proposed China-Russia Treaty, as based on the China-Russia draft of preceding years in UN Conference on Disarmament (UNCD), will lack a provision analogous to the Outer Peace Peace Keeping Agency contained in the Space Preservation Treaty, and thus not have any mechanism for enforcement.  Moreover, the China Russia draft has been procedurally bottled up in the UNCD for seven years, which is why the Space Preservation Treaty was brought into being.

This planned China-Russia Treaty thus is a repeat of the past roadblocked process at the UN.  It reinforces why the Space Preservation Treaty Signing has been undertaken as the critical path to a transformation of the war economy into a sustainable, peaceful Space exploration and habitation economy.

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China, Russia to offer treaty to ban arms in space

Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:55pm EST

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA (Reuters) - China and Russia will submit a joint proposal next month for an international treaty to ban the deployment of weapons in outer space, a senior Russian arms negotiator said on Friday.

Valery Loshchinin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, said the draft treaty would be presented to the 65-member forum on February 12.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is due to address the Geneva forum, which constitutes the world's main disarmament negotiating body, on that day. Loshchinin gave no details on the proposal which has been circulated to some senior diplomats.

Tensions between Russia and the United States have deepened in recent years over U.S. plans to revive its stalled "Star Wars" program from the 1980s with a new generation of missile defense shields.

Nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction are banned from space under a 1967 international treaty. But Washington's plans have stirred concerns about non-nuclear arms in space.

China tested an anti-satellite missile a year ago and Washington has been developing weapons which can hit satellites.

Donald Mahley, acting U.S. deputy assistant secretary for threat reduction, export controls and negotiations, on Thursday said China's efforts for a space treaty stood in stark contrast with its anti-satellite test, which he called "a wake-up call".

Regarding the Sino-Russian draft, he said: "We see nothing in the new proposal to change the current U.S. position."

"Additional binding arms control agreements are simply not a viable tool for enhancing the long-term space security interests of the United States or its allies," Mahley said.

China and Russia have presented several "working papers" on preventing an arms race in outer space over the last six years. Diplomats said their draft treaty was likely to refine elements from previous joint documents.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a speech to the disarmament group on Wednesday, expressed dismay over the long-standing impasse at the talks meant to stop the spread of dangerous weapons.

He called for the conference -- which has failed for a decade to reach the consensus needed to launch negotiations on any issue -- to make 2008 a "breakthrough year."

Its last success dates to the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty banning underground nuclear explosions.

A Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty is strongly backed by the United States, but others -- notably China and Russia -- have long argued that parallel progress is needed on other questions, including preventing weapons being deployed in space.

http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USL2578979020080125

Instrucciones para firmar, ratificar y depositar el TRATADO PARA PRESERVAR el ESPACIO EXTERIOR.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SIGNING, RATIFYING & DEPOSITING THE SPACE PRESERVATION TREATY

Key Reasons Why Earth Needs the Space Preservation Treaty Signed Now!

Earth & Mars (Courtesy Norwegian Space Centre)

VILCABAMBA, ECUADOR - The current U.S. Administration plans to deploy space-based weapons.  One main purpose is to dominate and control space, as the actor who dominates and controls space, dominates and control all on earth.  Space-based weapons are dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, and unnecessary, as they would not protect anyone or anything…and there is a better choice.   Fortunately, a U.N. Space Preservation Treaty is ready to be signed into law.  This is the one moment in time when space-based weapons can be banned…before deployment under the guise of “research” or “tests” of missile defense, and/or before the accelerated momentum of funding, vested interests and technology gets put into place that would make this impossible to stop.  Plans are in motion to convene a U.N. Space Preservation Treaty Signing.

The U.N. Space Preservation Treaty to ban all space-based weapons will:

        *Prohibit the research and development (R&D), testing, manufacturing, production and deployment of space-based weapons and systems, and the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit (i.e. satellites).   This prohibits the introduction of weapons in space and the escalation of war on earth from space.

         *Permit space exploration, R&D, testing, manufacturing, production and deployment of civil commercial and defense activities (including communication, navigation, surveillance, reconnaissance, early warning or remote sensing) that is not related to space-based weapons or systems.

         *Transform the war industry into a peaceful, sustainable space industry by removing the mandate to weaponize space.

         *Stimulate a peacetime economy (a new economic stimulus package) with a new marketplace of more jobs and training programs, and more profits and contracts than during any hot or cold wartime, based on the conscious R&D of clean and safe Space Age technology, products and services that will be applied directly to solving urgent problems of human needs, alternative energy, and the environment - thus transforming the war-based economy and industry into a Space Age economy and industry.

         *Build a strong national defense and a global security system based on applying civil, commercial and military/defense related Space Age technology of a non-space-based-weapons nature directed no longer to be used as "force multipliers" to aim weapons but to enhance worldwide communication and information exchanges about issues of concern to all peoples.  This will bring the world’s peoples together to reap the abundance of benefits. Satellite photos will be used to preserve our interconnected environment (eg. to see where the sick waters are so we can clean them up), and to protect the people (eg. see where people have migrated so the troops and all can go to them with food, medicine, and clean water, to educate, to eliminate poverty, and to heal).

         *Apply a new role for the military and military spending, corporations and corporate profits to focus with intention to be in service:  to protect humanity and preserve our environment in the context of a new Space Age Paradigm in which war on earth will become archaic as humans evolve safely, consciously on earth and into space. 

We need to provide the time and place when world leaders will sign and ratify the World Space Preservation Treaty. When the first five (5) U.N. Member nations sign and ratify this Treaty it becomes law, and an international (world) cooperative Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency will be established and equipped to monitor outer space and enforce the ban. The same equipment can be applied to verify agreements including the reduction and elimination of missiles (thus eliminating the need for “missile defense’), nuclear weapons, and other dangerous and polluting technology on our Earth. 

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Tel: 011 593 7 2 580687
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Email Norrie Huddle

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Email Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd

Solutions: The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing

EXCERPT:

THE PROBLEM:

Space: America's New War Zone
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 19 October 2006
The Independent (UK)

“The Bush administration has staked an aggressive new claim to dominate space - rejecting any new treaties that seek to limit the United States' extraterrestrial activities and warning that it will oppose any nations that try to get in its way.

“A new policy recently signed by President George Bush, asserts that his country has the right to conduct whatever research, development and "other activities" in space that it deems necessary for its own national interests.

“The new policy further warns that the US will take those actions necessary to protect its space capabilities and deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to those interests. The document adds: ‘Space activities have improved life in the United States and around the world, enhancing security, protecting lives and the environment, speeding information flow serving as an engine for economic growth and revolutionizing the way people view their world and the cosmos.’

"’Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.’

“In some respects the policy represents the space equivalent of the "Bush Doctrine" national security policy initially outlined by Mr. Bush in a speech at West Point military academy in June 2002. At that event - and later more formally codified – Mr. Bush said the new US policy would place more emphasis on military pre-emption and unilateral actions….”
From, Space: America's New War Zone, op. cit.

THE SOLUTION:

The outcome of the Space Preservation Treaty-Signing is a functioning ban of space-based weapons and warfare in space, operating through an independent Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency that will be formed by the leaders and Nations who sign and ratify the Space Preservation Treaty.

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing urgently enrolls U.N. Member Nations to individually sign and ratify the Space Preservation Treaty, to ban ALL space-based weapons.  The Treaty-Signing creates a growing enclave of U.N. Member Nations, national communities, and legal jurisdictions which have signed and ratified the Space Preservation Treaty, and ban ALL space-based weapons, thus outlawing  warfare in space and from space under international law and United Nations Charter and rules.

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing results in a caucus of U.N. Member Nations which have individually or in small groups signed and ratified the Space Preservation Treaty in cumulative numbers which approximate the latest formal of the U.N. General Assembly vote of 166 – 1 (2 abstentions) in favor of preventing the weaponization of space. 

Why A Space Preservation Treaty-Signing is Vital

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The Space Preservation Treaty Signing-Signing is the most reliable,timely, and effective method available that will bring world leaders together to permanently ban all space-based weapons in an enforceable verifiable manner that will lead to a "cap" on the war industry while it evolves into becoming a space industry.

An International Treaty Signing for the Space Preservation Treaty can be convened at any time by any willing U.N. Member State(s) under the authority of Article 102 of the United Nations Charter.

Time is of the essence to get the Space Preservation Treaty signed into law.

The signing of the Space Preservation Treaty will help to put needed pressure on the U.S. congress and administration.

Key to preserving peace in space so we can achieve peace on earth: When the first five (5) countries sign on to the Space Preservation Treaty, an international outer space peacekeeping agency will be
established and equipped to monitor outer space and enforce (conflict resolution style) this ban. This equipment, of course, can also be used to finally verify arms agreements including the reduction and
inevitably elimination of nuclear weapons and other dangerous and polluting technologies on our planet.

Solution: A "Fast Track" signing of the Space Preservation Treaty must funded in order to be set the Treaty signing process into immediate motion. An international Treaty Signing Conference on the Space Preservation Treaty must be convened as soon as possible to facilitate the UN Member Nation leaders coming together for the signing and to bring into force an immediate and permanent ban on all space-based weapons. We must stop the arms race at the only moment in time, in all of history, when it can be stopped, before it begins in space (that is, before space-based weapons are deployed and/or before a momentum of funding and vested interests makes the weaponization of space impossible to stop).

Since 1948, over 40,000 multi-lateral agreements or Treaties have been signed, ratified and deposited with the U.N. Secretary General by Member States under Article 102 of the U.N. Charter. Under Article 102 of the United Nations Charter, "every treaty and every international agreement entered into by any Member of the United Nations after the present Charter comes into force shall as soon as possible be
registered with the Secretariat and published by it."

An informal group of NGOs assists the convening Member States by mobilizing public opinion, preparing briefing documents for the Member States, and preparing educational materials in support of the Treaty Conference, as was done in 1997 at the Ottawa, Canada, Land Mines Treaty Conference.

Because there is intention of the current U.S. administration to deploy a world-wide U.S. missile defense system, inexorably linked to deploying space-based weapons under the guise of calling the deployment "merely tests" of this system, the Space Preservation Treaty Signing Conference must be produced quickly. Canada is identified as the best location, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich as well as former MP Svend Robinson (New Democratic Party) in the Canadian House of Commons have called on Canadian leaders to convene this Space Preservation Treaty Signing Conference.

The current U.S. administration plan is to "seize the high ground" to "dominate and control space," and many say that he who controls and dominates space also controls and dominates all on earth. The momentum of funding, vested interests and technology being put into place could make it impossible to stop the weaponization of space if a ban is not turned into law in time. Space-based weapons could be deployed under the guise of calling them "merely research" or "merely tests," or they could be deployed without even the conducting of tests.

Many experts say this is an emergency situation, as there is only one chance to ban space-based weapons. Many agree that time is of the essence to get the Space Preservation Treaty signed into law quickly. Experts also say that the signing of the Space Preservation Treaty will put necessary pressure

The Space Preservation Treaty Conference Signing Ceremony will include a global media broadcast and Internet webcast.

CLICK HERE for more information about the World Space Preservation Treaty Signing Conference, and to read a copy of the Space Preservation Treaty for yourself:

http://peaceinspace.blogs.com/space_preservation_treaty/

Please volunteer to help this endeavor. We need to build a world movement to send packages of educational information to all world leaders, to media, to the people about the Space Preservation Treaty and to help organize the Space Preservation Treaty Conference.

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ICIS needs your help

There are many ways you can get involved to help preserve Peace in Space.

Volunteers and funders are needed to:

help produce the World Space Preservation Treaty Conference
help educate about the Space Preservation Treaty and Act
Introduce the Space Preservation Resolution in your City
help with day to day operations at ICIS
help reach out to women, NGOs, peace groups, organizations, activists, and communities.
help coordinate volunteers

If you have time, skills, contacts, or financial resources, please
fill out our comments form or contact us at:

For any comments, volunteers or questions, please contact us at
info@peaceinspace.com

Volunteers, organizers, experts, visionaries, and contributors are needed to:

1) Produce a Space Preservation Treaty Conference Process to facilitate the gathering of world leaders to sign the Space Preservation Treaty.

3) Produce a world and national movement to educate decision makers and people about the urgency, feasibility, and benefits of banning space-based weapons and continuing world cooperation in space.

4) Organize meetings in the military industrial lab university intelligence NASA and other international organizations government(s) complex and with decision makers, NGO's, and individuals to identify what IS in space and what CAN BE in space of a non-weapons nature and how that can provide solutions to human and environmental problems, stimulate the economy (jobs and training programs) with a new marketplace based on the R&D of clean and safe technology, products and services that can enhance worldwide communication and information sharing to bring the world together in a new cooperative world security system.

CONTACT/CONTACTO

Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) – South America
PO Box 288
Loja, ECUADOR
Email: rosin@west.net
http://www.peaceinspace.com
http://www.madretierra1.com
Tel: 011 593 7 2 580687

Email Dr. Carol Rosin - rosin@west.net

Email Eleanor LeCain - EMLECAIN@aol.com

Email Norrie Huddle - nhuddle@frontiernet.net

Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) – North America
3339 West 41 Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6N3E5 CANADA
Tel: 604-733-8134
Fax: 604-733-8135
Email: info@peaceinspace.com
Campaign: http://www.peaceinspace.org
Exopolitics: http://www.exopolitics.com
ICIS: http://www.peaceinspace.com
STARDREAMS: http://www.peaceinspace.net

Email Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd - alw@peaceinspace.net

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SIGN A U.N. PETITION for the Space Preservation Treaty Conference:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/832338563

China missile test is justified

China missile test is justified
by  Dhananjay Khadilkar
Friday, February 16, 2007  21:56 IST

MUMBAI: The anti-satellite missile test was China's way of bringing the US to the negotiating table for stopping the proliferation of space weapons. This was stated by Alfred Webre, co-architect of the Space Preservation Treaty and the Space Preservation Act that was introduced in the US Congress.

Talking to DNA about the Chinese test, Webre said that for the past 6 years China and Russia had played a positive role to curb the proliferation of space weapons.

However, the Bush administration had unilaterally terminated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed by Nixon and Brezhnev in 2002 with a clear intention of developing highly sophisticated space weapons to dominate the world. It was in response to the US belligerence that China conducted the anti-satellite missile test.

According to Webre, the US government is engaged in the development of a platform in space which will be used to launch laser, depleted Uranium weapons called 'Rods of god', with an aim to dominate earth as well as space.

"The new space weapons are so sophisticated that an object of the size of the football can be targeted," Webre said.

The US wants to claim ownership of outer space which is a violation of the 1968 UN treaty on outer space.

Webre though feels that despite there being some justification there are a lot of negatives associated with the Chinese test. "The US would use this test as an excuse to further accelerate the development of missile defence system."

"Also, the destruction of a satellite has resulted in the increase of junk in space which poses a great threat to the satellites and space vehicles," he added.

Considering the current geopolitical scenario in which China is pitted against the US, the anti-satellite test won't be enough to force the US to back off from its agenda.

"Anything that China does is perceived as anti-US and vice-versa. A third country therefore can play a crucial role in bringing both the sides to the table and sign the Space Preservation Treaty," Webre said.

According to Webre, that country could be India. "India is a space superpower as well as an advocate of non-proliferation. India can easily attract a number of countries to sign the Space Preservation Treaty which bans the use of space weapons and promotes space economy."

Original article: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1080422

URL of this article: http://peaceinspace.blogs.com/peaceinspaceorg/2007/02/china_missile_t.html

Bush Space Policy & The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing

Bush Space Policy & The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing

WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007 & Nov. 18, 2006 @ 10 PM CST (8 PM PST)

LISTEN LIVE: http://www.rbnlive.com/listen.html

GUEST: Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd
www.peaceinspace.org

Host: D'Anne Burley

TOPIC: THE SPACE PRESERVATION TREATY-SIGNING

THE PROBLEM: Bush Space Policy

U.S. National Space Policy
http://www.ostp.gov/html/US%20National%20Space%20Policy.pdf

Space: America's New War Zone
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 19 October 2006
The Independent (UK)

“The Bush administration has staked an aggressive new claim to dominate space - rejecting any new treaties that seek to limit the United States' extraterrestrial activities and warning that it will oppose any nations that try to get in its way.

“A new policy recently signed by President George Bush, asserts that his country has the right to conduct whatever research, development and "other activities" in space that it deems necessary for its own national interests.

“The new policy further warns that the US will take those actions necessary to protect its space capabilities and deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to those interests. The document adds: ‘Space activities have improved life in the United States and around the world, enhancing security, protecting lives and the environment, speeding information flow serving as an engine for economic growth and revolutionizing the way people view their world and the cosmos.’

"’Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.’

“In some respects the policy represents the space equivalent of the "Bush Doctrine" national security policy initially outlined by Mr. Bush in a speech at West Point military academy in June 2002. At that event - and later more formally codified – Mr. Bush said the new US policy would place more emphasis on military pre-emption and unilateral actions….”

From, Space: America's New War Zone, op. cit.

THE SOLUTION: Space Preservation Treaty-Signing

The outcome of the Space Preservation Treaty-Signing is a functioning ban of space-based weapons and warfare in space, operating through an independent Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency that will be formed by the leaders and Nations who sign and ratify the Space Preservation Treaty.  This will lead to the transformation of the permanent war economy into a sustainable, cooperative, peaceful New Energy-based Space Age society.

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing urgently enrolls U.N. Member Nations to individually sign and ratify the Space Preservation Treaty, to ban ALL space-based weapons.  The Treaty-Signing creates a growing enclave of U.N. Member Nations, national communities, and legal jurisdictions which have signed and ratified the Space Preservation Treaty, and ban ALL space-based weapons, thus outlawing  warfare in space and from space under international law and United Nations Charter and rules.

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing results in a caucus of U.N. Member Nations which have individually or in small groups signed and ratified the Space Preservation Treaty in cumulative numbers which approximate the latest formal of the U.N. General Assembly vote of 166 – 1 (2 abstentions) in favor of preventing the weaponization of space.

ICIS: http://www.peaceinspace.com

WORLD PEACE FORUM 2006
DOCUMENTARY: WAR FROM SPACE
Eric Herter
58 min 57 sec - 16-Nov-2006
space4peace.org

WATCH ON GOOGLE VIDEO: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6515526620862018423

 URL of this article:

http://peaceinspace.blogs.com/peaceinspaceorg/2006/11/republic_broadc.html

CLEAR CHANNEL: A Live Debate on U.S. Missile Defense - Riki Ellison (For) versus Alfred Webre (Against)

WHEN: Friday Dec. 8, 2006 @ 7:00 AM EST
WHERE:  Clear Channel
Clear Channel Maine - 103.9 FM WVOM
LISTEN LIVE: http://www.wvomfm.com/main.html
WHAT: A Live Debate on U.S. Missile Defense - Riki Ellison (For)  versus Alfred Webre (Against)

WHO: 

Riki Ellison, President & Founder, Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance.  "Riki Ellison founded the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), a non-profit organization, in 2002. MDAA has over 9,000 active members across the United States. The mission of MDAA is to advocate for the deployment and development of a missile defense system for missiles of all ranges.  Ellison has more than twenty five years of experience leading this issue to the forefront of the American public view by advocating, educating, and advising on the importance of a missile defense system to protect our country. He has become an expert on the issue and is the premier spokesperson on the nation’s missile defense program. During the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, in 2001, Ellison founded and developed the business strategy that would later become Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance in conjunction with the United States withdrawal from the anti-ballistic missile treaty and the decision by the President of the United States to deploy missile defense systems. Ellison began speaking on behalf of missile defense in off seasons during his professional football career with the San Francisco 49ers where he won three Super Bowls during his seven year tenure. Ellison played his final three years of professional football for the Los Angeles Raiders, retiring in 1992."  From http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org/

VERSUS

Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd is the International Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), dedicated to transforming the permanent war economy into a peaceful, sustainable Space Age society, preventing the weaponization of space, and supporting cooperation amongst Life in the Universe.  He has been a delegate to the UNISPACE Outer Space Conference and NGO representative at the United Nations (Communications Coordination Committee for the UN; UN Second Special Session on Disarmament).  With others, he is a co-architect of the Space Preservation Act and the Space Preservation Treaty introduced into the U.S. Congress by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) to ban space-based weapons and warfare in space and establish an independent Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency to monitor and enforce the ban.  According to Alfred, "It was two hawks, Leonid Breznev and Richard Nixon, who outlawed missile defense systems with the ABM Treaty in 1972 because missile defense systems are inherently unstable, lead to nuclear first strikes and nuclear war.  Under the pretext of the false flag operations of 9/11, the U.S. Administration engineered a withdrawal from the ABM Treaty in order to institute the $1 trillion corporate warfare-welfare contracts known as U.S. Missile Defense so as to establish the R&D infrastructure for the weaponization of space.  Let's dedicate louter space as a weapons-free sanctuary, and allow humanity to embark on a space habitation and space exploration agenda - which is our heritage."  Webre is also co-author of the 9/11 Independent Prosecutor Act now under review by incoming Committee Chairmen in the U.S. Congress.  The Act would appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate criminal treason under Article III of the U.S. Constitution in the events of September 11, 2001.

ICIS: http://www.peaceinspace.com

Please sign a UN Petition for a Space Preservation Treaty-signing to ban all space-based weapons and warfare in space.

Over 4300 Cultural Creatives have already signed!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/832338563

Space Preservation Treaty Conference

Space Preservation Treaty Signing Conference

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The Space Preservation Treaty Signing Conference is the most reliable,timely, and effective method available that will bring world leaders together to permanently ban all space-based weapons in an enforceable verifiable manner that will lead to a "cap" on the war industry while it evolves into becoming a space industry.

An International Treaty Signing Conference for the Space Preservation Treaty can be convened at any time by any willing U.N. Member State(s) under the authority of Article 102 of the United Nations Charter.

Time is of the essence to get the Space Preservation Treaty signed into law.

The signing of the Space Preservation Treaty will help to put needed pressure on the U.S. congress and administration.

Key to preserving peace in space so we can achieve peace on earth: When the first five (5) countries sign on to the Space Preservation Treaty, an international outer space peacekeeping agency will be established and equipped to monitor outer space and enforce (conflict resolution style) this ban. This equipment, of course, can also be used to finally verify arms agreements including the reduction and
inevitably elimination of nuclear weapons and other dangerous and polluting technologies on our planet.

Solution: A "Fast Track" signing of the Space Preservation Treaty must funded in order to be set the Treaty signing process into immediate motion. An international Treaty Signing Conference on the Space Preservation Treaty must be convened as soon as possible to facilitate the UN Member Nation leaders coming together for the signing and to bring into force an immediate and permanent ban on all space-based weapons. We must stop the arms race at the only moment in time, in all of history, when it can be stopped, before it begins in space (that is, before space-based weapons are deployed and/or before a momentum of funding and vested interests makes the weaponization of space impossible to stop).

Since 1948, over 40,000 multi-lateral agreements or Treaties have been signed, ratified and deposited with the U.N. Secretary General by Member States under Article 102 of the U.N. Charter. Under Article 102 of the United Nations Charter, "every treaty and every international agreement entered into by any Member of the United Nations after the present Charter comes into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the Secretariat and published by it."

An informal group of NGOs assists the convening Member States by mobilizing public opinion, preparing briefing documents for the Member States, and preparing educational materials in support of the Treaty Conference, as was done in 1997 at the Ottawa, Canada, Land Mines Treaty Conference.

Because there is intention of the current U.S. administration to deploy a world-wide U.S. missile defense system, inexorably linked to deploying space-based weapons under the guise of calling the deployment "merely tests" of this system, the Space Preservation Treaty Signing Conference must be produced quickly. Canada is identified as the best location, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich as well as Petitions filed by the New Democratic Party in the Canadian House of Commons have called on Canadian leaders to convene this Space Preservation Treaty Signing Conference.

The current U.S. administration plan is to "seize the high ground" to "dominate and control space," and many say that he who controls and dominates space also controls and dominates all on earth. The momentum of funding, vested interests and technology being put into place could make it impossible to stop the weaponization of space if a ban is not turned into law in time. Space-based weapons could be deployed under the guise of calling them "merely research" or "merely tests," or they could be deployed without even the conducting of tests.

Many experts say this is an emergency situation, as there is only one chance to ban space-based weapons. Many agree that time is of the essence to get the Space Preservation Treaty signed into law quickly. Experts also say that the signing of the Space Preservation Treaty will put necessary pressure

The Space Preservation Treaty Conference Signing Ceremony will include a global media broadcast and Internet webcast.

CLICK HERE for more information about the World Space Preservation Treaty Signing Conference, and to read a copy of the Space Preservation Treaty for yourself:

http://peaceinspace.blogs.com/space_preservation_treaty/

Please volunteer to help this endeavor. We need to build a world movement to send packages of educational information to all world leaders, to media, to the people about the Space Preservation Treaty and to help organize the Space Preservation Treaty Conference.

NPAE - No Proliferación de Armas en el Espacio- ICIS (Spain) opens.

BARCELONA, SPAIN, EU - NPAE - No Proliferación de Armas en el Espacio, 

NPAE: http://www.pazenelespacio.org/

the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) - Spain

ICIS: http://www.peaceinspace.com

has opened offices in Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, under the direction of Ian T. Cruz.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Compte d'Urgell, 243 2º, 08036 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.

Tel.: +34-676-013-515 / Fax: +34-934-154-606

Ian T. Cruz, Director de Proyectos Especiales:

Email:  ian@pazenelespacio.org

For a Summary (pdf) of NPAE's activities (Spanish), please click here:

Download NPAE-ICIS Spanish.pdf

Gracias/Thank you!

Dr. Carol Rosin, President ICIS
Vilcabamba, Ecuador
Email: rosin@peaceinspace.com

Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd
International Director, ICIS
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Email: alw@peaceinspace.com

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TORONTO STAR: Canada could prevent weaponization of space

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THE TORONTO STAR   APRIL 30, 2002
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Canada could prevent weaponization of space
No other country is in a better position to initiate international action

By James George, Dr. Carol Rosin and Alfred Webre

ON JUNE 13, 2002, the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty will expire following its unilateral termination by the Bush administration, leaving an international legal void that will allow the weaponization of space.

The termination of the ABM Treaty will permit research, development, testing, manufacturing, production and deployment of  space-based weapons, and space-based components of the U.S.  National Missile Defense System to go forward, instigating a dangerous, costly, and destabilizing arms  race in space, impacting all of us.

Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Ivanov has already suggested that if the U.S.  proceeds, Russia could deploy its own response to the U.S. space-based weapons system. The stated objectives of  the United States Space Command in "Vision For 2020" are to seize the strategic high ground of space to "dominate and control."

There is a rapidly growing worldwide movement to stop this potentially catastrophic arms race in space. This must be stopped before it begins â" this year.

As seen from space, Canada lies between Russia and the United States, and, geography aside, no country is in a better position to initiate international action. Since 1982, Canada has led the growing United Nations lobby opposing weapons in space.

Deputy Prime Minister John Manley stated on July 26, 2001: "Canada would be very happy to launch an initiative to see an international convention preventing the  weaponization of space." With the strong support of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N. General Assembly last Nov. 29 voted 156-0 to prevent an
arms race in space. Almost everyone wants it.

On Sept. 28, 2001, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov had invited "the world community to start working out a comprehensive agreement on the non-deployment of weapons in outer space." At the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in June last year, China had taken a similar position.

But neither Russia nor China will initiate binding action while the United States is unbound. If Canada does not act now, who will? If  we do, we will generate far more support and respect than we gathered over our land mines initiative. We could turn the tide that will lift all ships and preserve space as a weapons-free commons.

In the United States, polls confirm that this result is what the great majority of Americans want. When there is almost unanimous international pressure, as well as very strong domestic support, the United States will change course.

In the next few days, every head of government will be receiving, from the Institute for Cooperation in Space, a Space Preservation Treaty, which is the international companion to the legislation introduced as H.R. 3616,  the Space Preservation Act of 2002, in the United States House of  Representatives on Jan. 23.

The act requires the U.S. to implement an international treaty that will ban all space-based weapons and the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit to preserve the co-operative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind.

The Space Preservation Treaty is an effective and verifiable world agreement that also will:
-Implement a ban on space-based weapons.
-Implement a ban on the use of weapons to destroy or
damage objects in space that are in orbit.
-Immediately order the permanent termination of
research and development, testing, manufacturing, production and
deployment of all space-based weapons.

The treaty allows for space exploration, research, development, testing, manufacturing, production and deployment of civil, commercial and defence activities in space that are not related to space-based weapons. Under the terms of the treaty, each nation having signed the treaty shall immediately work toward supporting other non-signatory nations in signing, ratifying and implementing the treaty.

Once three nations sign it and deposit it at the United Nations, Annan is required to report publicly to the U.N. General Assembly every 90 days on the progress of implementing a permanent ban on space-based weapons and on the progress of signing and ratifying the treaty.

Once 20 nations have signed and ratified the Space Preservation Treaty, it will go into force; the outer space peacekeeping agency will be funded and empowered to monitor and enforce the ban on space-based weapons.

Canada's signing of the treaty will encourage Russia to maintain Russia's and  China's longstanding commitment to keep space weapons-free and to sign the treaty as well. Together, Canada, Russia, China, and many other nations already on record as supporting such a treaty, can lead the nations of the world in signing the Space Preservation Treaty.

We can and must stop the weaponization of space before it occurs. The signing of the Space Preservation Treaty will put needed pressure on the U.S. Congress and administration to sign this verifiable and enforceable agreement. This permanent ban on all space-based weapons, worldwide, will transform the war  industry into a space industry that will stimulate the creation of clean and safe technologies, products and services, including new jobs and training programs, that can and will be applied directly to solving urgent human and environmental problems.

What can an ordinary citizen do? Contact Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and Foreign Minister Bill Graham immediately. Tell them to lead the way, to be the first to say that they will sign the Space Preservation Treaty. This is the greatest challenge of our generation.

James George is a retired Canadian diplomat who served at the United Nations. He can be contacted at geojam6@sympatico.ca

Dr. Carol Rosin is president of The Institute for Co-operation in Space (ICIS), a non-profit educational foundation.

Alfred Lambremont Webre is an ICIS international director.

Contact them at rosin@west.net (USA) and alw@peaceinspace.com (Canada).

The ICIS Web site is http://www.peaceinspace.com

U.S. should scrap missile defence plan, Blix says

JEFF SALLOT

Globe and Mail Update

OTTAWA — Hans Blix, the UN's former chief weapons inspector, and a blue-ribbon international commission say the United States should halt deployment of its missile defence system and concentrate instead arms control measures.

In a report to be presented to the UN Thursday, Mr. Blix and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission warn that missile defence systems like the one being built by the United States threaten global peace and security.

Deployment of such systems risk “creating or aggravating arms races,” says the commission's final report.

Mr. Blix, the chairman of the commission, was the chief weapons inspector for Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion. His recommendation to allow inspectors more time to try to find weapons of mass destruction was ignored by President George W. Bush's administration, which now admits there were no such weapons.

This new report is likely to receive a cool welcome in Washington as well. Mr. Bush made deployment of a missile defence system a high priority early in his administration. Some ground-based interceptors - rockets intended to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles - have since been installed in Alaska, but their reliability has been questioned by an independent oversight agency of the U.S. Congress.

Mr. Blix's international commission, whose 14 members include William Perry, a former U.S. defence secretary, says that rather than trying to build a missile defence shield the U.S. should negotiate new treaties to eliminate the threat of ballistic missiles.

The 40-year-old Outer Space Treaty, which banned nuclear weapons in space after the U.S. conducted nuclear tests there, should be broadened to cover all proposed types of space weapons, the commission said.

Meanwhile, the U.S. and any other country thinking of deploying missile defence systems should refrain from “any tests against space objects or targets on earth from a space platform.”

In the past decade, the Pentagon has spent billions of dollars researching space-based weapons, including possible development of orbiting high-intensity laser cannons.

The previous Liberal government in Ottawa said Canada would not participate in U.S. missile defence programs involving space-based weapons. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other Conservative ministers have said that while they are not racing to embrace missile defence they would consider any concrete proposal Washington might make down the line.

The Blix commission, whose work was financed chiefly by the Swedish government and partly by the Vancouver-based Simons Foundation, also said the U.S., Russia and other nuclear-weapons states need to take their obligations to eliminate all of these weapons of mass destruction.

The Non-Proliferation Treaty requires countries to eventually get rid of all nuclear weapons, but disarmament efforts have been stalled in recent years despite the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s.

All countries should begin “planning for security without nuclear weapons” and begin incremental steps to get rid of their arsenals.

Current U.S. nuclear doctrine - issued just three months ago - “parted ways with the UN Charter provisions on self-defence,” Mr. Blix says in a preface to the report.

The Bush administration's doctrine leaves open the possibility of using a nuclear weapon to pre-emptively destroy another country's own nuclear arsenal. U.S. officials have said they want to keep this option in case North Korea or Iran develop nuclear weapons.

As long as any one country has nuclear weapons others will want them as well, the report says.

The report also urges the Bush administration to reverse its opposition to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty for nuclear warheads, saying the U.S. has the leverage to lead by example. If the U.S. does not take the lead “there could be more nuclear tests and new nuclear arms races.”

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ACDN FRANCE: SPACE PRESERVATION TREATY SIGNING CONFERENCE

2nd Rally for International Disarmament - Nuclear, Biological and Chemical
Saintes (France) 6-8 May 2005
SPACE PRESERVATION TREATY SIGNING CONFERENCE

-----------------------------------------------------------    The Space Preservation Treaty Signing Conference is the most reliable, timely, and effective method available that will bring world leaders together to permanently ban all space-based weapons in an enforceable verifiable manner that will lead to a "cap" on the war industry while it evolves into becoming a space industry.

This way the permanent war economy can be transformed into a sustainable, cooperative, peaceful Space Age society.

An international Treaty Signing Conference on the Space Preservation Treaty must be convened as soon as possible to facilitate Nation State leaders coming together for the signing and to bring into force an immediate and permanent ban on all space-based weapons. We must stop the arms race at the only moment in time, in all of history, when it can be stopped, before it begins in space (that is, before space-based weapons are deployed and/or before a momentum of funding and vested interests makes the weaponization of space impossible to stop).

An International Treaty Signing Conference for the Space Preservation Treaty can be convened at any time by any willing U.N. Member State(s) under the authority of Article 102 of the United Nations Charter.   

The current U.S. administration plan is to "seize the high ground" to "dominate and control space," and many say that he who controls and dominates space also controls and dominates all on earth. The momentum of funding, vested interests and technology being put into place could make it impossible to stop the weaponization of space if a ban is not turned into law in time.

Space-based weapons could be deployed under the guise of calling them "merely research" or "merely tests," or they could be deployed without even the conducting of tests.    Many experts say this is an emergency situation, as there is only one chance to ban space-based weapons. Many agree that time is of the essence to get the Space Preservation Treaty signed into law quickly.

Time is of the essence to get the Space Preservation Treaty signed into law.    The signing of the Space Preservation Treaty will help to put needed pressure on the U.S. congress and administration.   

The Treaty is the Key to preserving peace in space so we can achieve peace on earth: When the first five (5) countries sign on to the Space Preservation Treaty, an international outer space peacekeeping agency will be established and equipped to monitor outer space and enforce (conflict resolution style) this ban.

Since 1948, over 40,000 multi-lateral agreements or Treaties have been signed, ratified and deposited with the U.N. Secretary General by Member States under Article 102 of the U.N. Charter. Under Article 102 of the United Nations Charter, "every treaty and every international agreement entered into by any Member of the United Nations after the present Charter comes into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the Secretariat and published by it."

We seek two or more Nations ready to sign the Space Preservation Treaty and then take it to other like-minded Nations.

Please volunteer to help this endeavor. We need to build a world movement to send packages of educational information to all world leaders, to media, to the people about the Space Preservation Treaty and to help organize the Space Preservation Treaty Conference.

You can find information at www.peaceinspace.org and www.peaceinspace.com.

Email: peace@peaceinspace.org

Institute for Cooperation in Space
Dr. Carol Rosin
Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd

LA CONFÉRENCE de SIGNATURE de TRAITÉ de CONSERVATION de l'Espace est la méthode la plus fiable, la plus opportune, et efficace disponible qui réunira des chefs du monde interdire de manière permanente toutes les armes espace-basées d'une façon vérifiable exécutoire qui mènera à un "chapeau" sur l'industrie de guerre tandis qu'elle se transforme en devenir une industrie de l'espace. 

De cette façon l'économie permanente de guerre peut être transformée en société soutenable, coopérative, paisible d'âge de l'espace. 

Une conférence internationale de signature de Traité sur le Traité de conservation de l'espace doit être assemblée aussitôt que possible pour faciliter les chefs de pays venant ensemble pour la signature et pour introduire dans la force une interdiction immédiate et permanente de toutes les armes espace-basées. 

Nous devons arrêter la course aux armements au seul moment à temps, en tout d'histoire, quand elle peut être arrêtée, avant qu'elle commence dans l'espace (c'est-à-dire, avant que des armes espace-basées soient déployées et/ou avant un élan du placement et des droits acquis rend le weaponization de l'espace impossible pour s'arrêter). 

Une conférence internationale pour le Traité de conservation de l'espace peut être assemblée à tout moment par n'importe quel Member de l'ONU disposé sous l'autorité de l'article 102 de la charte des Nations Unies. 

Le plan courant d'administration des ETATS-UNIS est "saisissent la terre élevée" "dominent et commandent l'espace," et beaucoup dites qu'il qui commande et domine des commandes de l'espace également et domine tous sur terre. 

L'élan du placement, des droits acquis et de la technologie étant installée pourrait le rendre impossible d'arrêter les armes dans l'espace si une interdiction n'est pas transformée en loi à temps.  des armes Espace-basées pourraient être déployées sous l'apparence de les appeler "simplement recherche" ou "simplement des essais," ou eux pourraient être déployés sans même la conduite des essais. 

Beaucoup d'experts disent que c'est une situation de secours, car il y a seulement une chance d'interdire les armes espace-basées.  Beaucoup conviennent que le temps est de l'essence pour obtenir le Traité de conservation de l'espace signé dans la loi rapidement. 

Le temps est de l'essence pour obtenir le Traité de conservation de l'espace signé dans la loi.  La signature du Traité de conservation de l'espace aidera à faire pression nécessaire sur le congrès et l'administration des ETATS-UNIS. 

Le Traité est la clef à préserver la paix dans l'espace ainsi nous pouvons réaliser la paix sur terre:  Quand les cinq premiers (5) pays signent dessus au Traité de conservation de l'espace, une agence de la paix internationale d'espace extra-atmosphérique sera établie et équipée pour surveiller l'espace extra-atmosphérique et pour imposer (modèle de résolution de conflit) cette interdiction. 

Depuis 1948, plus de 40.000 accords ou Traités multilatéraux ont été signés, ratifiés et déposés avec le sécrétaire général d'cU.n. par des Etats membres en vertu de l'article 102 d'cU.n. Charter.  En vertu de l'article 102 de la charte des Nations Unies, "chaque traité et chaque accord international sont entrés dans par n'importe quel membre des Nations Unies après que la charte actuelle entre en vigueur soit inscrite aussitôt que possible au secrétariat et éditée par elle." 

Nous cherchons deux nations ou plus prêtes à signer le Traité de conservation de l'espace et puis à le prendre à d'autres nations semblables. 

Svp volontaire pour aider cet effort.  Nous devons établir un mouvement du monde pour envoyer des paquets d'information éducative à tous les chefs du monde, aux médias, aux personnes au sujet du Traité de conservation de l'espace et à l'aide organisons