Campaign for Cooperation in Space: 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.

Solutions for Transforming the War Based Economy
into a Permanent, Prosperous, Sustainable, Peaceful, World Cooperative
New Energy & Space Exploration Economy

PROJECT PLAN

THE SOLUTION:
THE SPACE PRESERVATION TREATY-SIGNING

THE PROBLEM:

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

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

THE SOLUTION:

I. VISION & MISSION

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing will put a literal lid on the war industry while simultaneously allowing the civil, commercial, entrepreneurial and military space research & development and exploration programs to continue once the verifiable ban on space-based weapons has been passed into international and national law.

People around the world are calling for a Space Preservation Treaty-Signing that will bring world leaders together to ban space-based weapons…to preserve the space frontier above all our heads for only peaceful ventures of a non-weapons nature and commitment. In a public opinion poll, published on April 15, 2004 by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) and the Knowledge Networks, 74 percent of respondents said they thought a treaty banning all weapons in space was “a good idea.” Moreover, “only 21 percent favored building a missile defense system, the first phase of space-based weaponry, right away. Sixty-eight percent said more research should be done first.” We propose that research be focused not on escalating weapons into space, but on what is being done and can be done in space that will provide unlimited opportunities and benefits to all on our planet.

As the mandate to "seize the high ground" to “dominate and control” everyone and everything on earth by the United States of American, and the intention to weaponize space is removed, consciousness will awaken and shift in a way that will have a positive impact all issues…including potential catastrophes now emerging as realities, that could, and likely would, obliterate the entire human species in the not too distant future.

We, the human species, can and must now move out of the obsolete earthbound ways of thinking and into a new space age way of thinking. Our thoughts create reality. In the new way of thinking and acting, war will be no more! Weapons in space are mandated now. NO weapons in space is mandatory if the human species is to survive. The human species can no longer tolerate, or survive, the old way of war planning and thinking. But how to educate, to change this way of thinking. Is it hopeless? No. Because the Space Preservation Treaty is ready to be signed and ratified into becoming world law. And, this Treaty has a real companion bill in the US Congress. The US is the only aggressor nation pushing for operational weapons to be deployed into space…imminently. The economy is based on instigating and stimulating wars…more weapons to make us more secure, and all that sales pitching.

But there is another economically and technologically feasible way to stimulate the economy, to maintain and create more jobs and profits than during any wartime. This ready-to-be-signed bill and treaty will turn former war related research & development (R&D) programs and contracts into R&D programs that will produce clean and safe new energy and other new technology, products and services that can and will be applied to solving urgent and potential problems of human needs and our environment. These new R&D programs can expand as the human species evolves into the limitlessness of the universes.

Our human evolution into space has occurred and cannot be stopped. It’s a matter now of HOW we go…with the same earth based war thinking, or the new space based thinking based on what has been going on in that place above all our heads for about 50 years. Nothing but world cooperation has taken place in the space frontier, so far. Do we REALLY want to allow the space frontier above all our heads to become weaponized? Have we not learned that more weapons do not make us more secure? It is time to vote for a new way of thinking. And the Treaty and bill exist…and with the reading of it minds will be tapped to realize the time has come to get this signed into law BEFORE operational weapons are placed in space…at which time it would be too late to stop the escalation of the old way of thinking, forever. Space offers us the time and place, right now, to focus on, that will bring peace and a new space based economy to us on earth. That means the creation of new jobs and training programs, as well as a new marketplace of products and services that will be directly, not as war spin-offs, applied to solving urgent problems of humans and other animals and our environment, producing alternative and new energy systems that we all know we need, and the kind of progress and development that will sustain us and our environment instead of destroy it, and us. But we cannot have progress and development based on the old war based ways of thinking…so we must get this Treaty signed that will open all kinds of wonderful portals to peace and sustainability, to healing and setting a direction into motion that is based on the health and happiness of all sacred life.

Security in the space age will, as soon as this Space Preservation Treaty is signed, be based on using technology (satellites, computers, etc.), not as force multipliers in war situations but for enhancing worldwide communication, education, and information sharing about critical issues and solutions. Space age technology will be applied in exciting ways that will bring the world, including adversaries, together, to make war archaic and peace prevail on earth as it is now, and must be preserved in space so that everyone can reap the unlimited benefits that will be made available to all.

THERE ARE LEADERS & NATIONS WHO WANT NO WEAPONS IN SPACE

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing brings reality to a unique new vision … about space being the key to really achieving peace on earth, as it IS in space, and to creating a really stimulated economy with and a “real” world cooperative security system no longer based on “seizing the high ground” or on “threatening” or on “dominating and controlling” or on secrets and lies and fear building, now being prepared to be part of the space-based weapons sales pitching so that people support this system as they did all previous wars, or at least let this suffering and destruction continue. NO MORE! This vision-with-action we’re speaking of here, this Treaty signing, will put a literal “lid” on the war industry by drawing the line BEFORE operational weapons are placed above all our heads pointed down all our throats as well as into space, as we ban ALL space-based weapons. And we can, and must do this, quickly…BEFORE space-based weapons are deployed…at which time it would be too late to stop this, forever. It’s our choice. And we can and must work together to get this legal enforceable verifiable document signed into law…quickly as possible.

This is worth repeating: The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing transforms the war industry, that is run by the inexorably linked, sometimes revolving door representatives of the military industrial government university lab intelligence space-agencies complex, from the war industry into a space industry - without space-based weapons - at that one moment in history when this can be done…BEFORE the accelerating momentum of vested interests, funding, and technology is put into place that would make the weaponization of space unstoppable and/or before space-based weapons are deployed. In other words, the timing is right, and it is vital to our very survival, to get this Space Preservation Treaty signed into law. And it won’t be difficult to do, right now.

The choice is the Treaty, or a vision of control and domination. With the Treaty, the vision includes a switch to love and understanding, compassion for all on various places of belief paths, an end to suffering and intentional destruction, and to world cooperation and enhanced communication, to a consciousness awakening and shifting that will take place as we learn about our evolution into space. With all the deserved attention bringing focus to earthbound issues, this new educational program that will focus more on learning about “who we are” in our bodies, on this planet, in these man-made and geographical boundaries on this planet, and in the universes, will raise the consciousness as we look up. The Space Preservation Treaty describes a new vision and action plan, that shows what we have to do to achieving peace on earth and a preservation of our environment…simply as we remove the mandate to weaponize space by simply preserving the cooperation and peace in space that has been on-going for over 50 years of humans exploring space.

The ICIS mission is to educate about the Space Preservation Treaty and Bill, and to get them signed into law as we call on others, as well, to act on helping to get FIVE world leaders needed to sign and ratify this Treaty to make it law, and to bring attention to more positive visions and actions plans that can and will then unleash the brain and energy drain now going into the war machine, and, Akido style, continue in motion but with brains and funds now being applied to provide for the peace and sustainability we all need and want. This can be achieved…if we focus with intention on getting this one step done…the signing of the Space Preservation Treaty that will provide a time and place to pivot the course of history.

Imagine how, via education about the Space Preservation Treaty, nation-state and world leaders, including leaders of indigenous and First Nation communities, on this planet, will benefit from the R&D of safe and clean new energy and other Space Age technology, products and services that will provide everyone with enhanced communication, shared information, and the direct applications of technology and information services to solve urgent and potential local and global problems of humans and other animals and our environment such poverty, starvation, education, pollution, global warming, energy, sustainable development, environmental degeneration, and overall health!

Imagine a world where nations join together to advance technologies for utilizing space resources that will be so valuable and cooperatively applied that there will be no reason to fight over what will be cooperatively managed resources.

Imagine a global economy based on cooperative applications of space technologies that will benefit all humankind, irrespective of any nation's degree of economic or scientific development. The Space Preservation Treaty and Bill hold this vision to be not only possible, but inevitable. Humanity is on the threshold of a quantum leap in consciousness and endeavors yet to be imagined. We must now take action to preserve this once in a lifetime, grand opportunity, by preventing the weaponization of space.

And we need no more studies, reports, debates, protests, or spins of the truth. There is no need to re-write or write yet another Treaty. This Space Preservation Treaty exists, and it incorporates the best of all the related Treaties including the dead Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the obsolete Outer Space Treaty of ’67, and proposed treaties such as the Russian-Chinese treaty. Also, the SPT forms a needed independent Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency with technology that will monitor outer space to enforce the ban. This highly sophisticated technology can also, then, be applied to verifying agreements to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons and other dangerous and polluting technologies on earth. This enforcement will now be based on world cooperation. It is clear that NO more weapons will make us more secure. Is it possible to enforce this ban? Of course, via world cooperation continuing, in space. The very definition of security and enforcement shifts here…and it’s feasible, desirable, and necessary.

We have a critical choice – to vote to explore the great unknown of the universes, outer space, or to risk continued suffering and disasters, devastation or obliteration. Just calling for peace or reporting on the problems isn’t going to change anything. The complex is moving into space…with weapons unless we stop it. We can rise above different perspectives and actions that haven’t, don’t, and won’t cause real change, that’s “second order” change. First order change “educates” about it. Second order change Is the change that will take place.

It is time to take actions that recognize our high consciousness and human potential applied with out-of-the-box thinking and intention that will cause second order change, the kind of change that will stick with us, or we can continue the status quo of protesting the old and accepting the same that would only lead us to more violence instead of peace. It’s our choice, and the time has come to choose and to create the reality we want.

There are leaders who want no weapons in space and who appreciation the benefits and opportunities that can be made available to all by banning space-based weapons. The vote recently in the U.N. General Assembly on a resolution for an International treaty banning weapons in space was 160 - 1, with the USA voting against this resolution for the first time in history. But, there is no treaty like the comprehensive Space Preservation Treaty.

The time has come to make the choice….weapons or no weapons in space…sign the Space Preservation Treaty, or what. We get only one chance in history to make this choice. It is only our generation’s responsibility to preserve space as a weapon-free zone.

Ask the children. What would their choice be? What will we tell them when they ask, “Why didn’t you do something when you had the chance?”

II. Results of The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing.

The Space Preservation Treaty (Appendix I) is at the core of this Treaty-Signing. The Space Preservation Treaty, incorporates the best, direct language and intention of previous space treaties and treaty proposals including the ABM Treaty, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, And there is a companion U.S. Space Preservation Act (H.R. 2420) (initiated by Congressman Dennis Kucinich), that once world pressure is put on by the signing of the Space Preservation Treaty, will also be supported and signed. But to influence the US congress to sign on to the companion bill, the World Treaty will put on the necessary pressure to get that US ban signed into law, and….thus making the impossible dream possible.

Under the Space Preservation Treaty-Signing, small groups of like-minded Nations, including indigenous and First Nation representatives, will come together in a supportive venue to sign (and then ratify) the Space Preservation Treaty. We need only FIVE UN member nations to make this ban law.

The Space Preservation Treaty will do the following:

♣ Create a new global economic stimulus package, based on creating a new marketplace of products and services as we evolve from earth into space, generating more jobs and education/training programs, and more contracts and profits than during any hot or cold wartime. Space research and development and exploration programs are the foundation for a win-win platform that is feasible and realistic. There programs will produce clean and safe Space Age New Energy, healing products and programs, and other technology that will be applied, with focus and intention, directly to solving urgent and potential problems of human needs, new energy, and a sustainable environment and development. These R&D and exploration programs are the foundation that will transform the war-based economy, industry and mindset into a Space Age economy, industry, and mindset, creating a new Space Age paradigm vision of what is and can be.

♣ 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 ALL operational weapons in space, and the escalation of war on earth from space and in space.

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

♣ Transform the war industry into a space industry and other industries by removing the mandate to weaponize space while simultaneously allowing the inexorably linked military-industrial-government complex to continue to expand into space, but without space-based weapons, and with a commitment to world cooperation in space continuing.

♣ Build a strong national and global defense and security system based on bringing the world, including “adversaries” with different cultures and perspectives, together for benefits all will reap as the world’s leaders commit to cooperation and healthy competition through agreements to 1) ban all space-based weapons and 2) apply civil, commercial, military/defense, and entrepreneurial Space Age technology and information services to enhance worldwide cooperation in communication and information exchanges about all vital issues of human needs, new energy, and our environment. Space-based technology will no longer be used as "force multipliers” to enhance war capabilities. Now it will be used to observe earth so that we can preserve our common environment and protect all life, to see where the sick waters are so we can clean them up, to see where suffering people are so troops can be sent in with food, medical supplies, clean water systems and alternative energy sources, and the intention to protect the nature and land, and to use satellite programs to provide education (healthcare, etc.) to eliminate poverty and suffering and to learn about the environment, science and the arts, etc. Security will be based on respect for our unity and diversity, with compassion for everyone on a different places on life’s path, and on coming together so that all will reap the abundance of benefits and opportunities that will better life as we recognize we are an interconnected earth-in-space species in the universe. Peace on Earth as it is in Space = real security.

♣ Provide a new, peaceful roles for the military and military budgets, and for corporations and corporate profits, which does not involve creating space-based weapons and/or fighting wars. These new roles for the military in space is based on what IS going on in space, and to reform and improve intelligence and defense departments in order to focus their R&D on technology, applications and information services that will protect humanity, produce new energy and life saving resources, and preserve our environment: a whole new Space Age way of thinking.

♣ The militarization of space has occurred, but not the weaponization of space. The militarization of space is different from that of earth…there are no operational space-based weapons to play in war with…there is only cooperation in space and that will be preserved by this Treaty and Act. We oppose the weaponization of space. Not the militarization of space…because that has occurred, just the operational weapons in space hasn’t. This Treaty simply removes the mandate to weaponize space, and identifies the beginnings of a new role for the militaries…that has already been started in space. A new way of thinking and acting will emerge as humans evolve into space further. As the ban on space-based weapons becomes law, humans can evolve and transition into a new and feasible vision that will replace the war industry and the old mindset of war with a space industry and a concept of eliminating war and developing peace and real security with the militaries, with the corporations, with all peoples in the Space Age, using Space Age technology and information to bring the world together without weapons…in space! Our evolution into space paves the way to peace on earth

♣ Verify and enforce agreements. As with the 1967 U.N. Outer Space Treaty, when the first five (5) U.N. Member Nations sign and ratify the Space Preservation Treaty, the Treaty comes into effect. An important new independent, international entity will be formed. The Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency is established and equipped to monitor outer space and enforce the space-based weapons ban. This same Space Age equipment will be applied with intention not to enhance war fighting capabilities, but instead to verify agreements including the reduction and elimination of missiles (thus eliminating the need for “missile defense”), nuclear weapons, and other dangerous weapons, toxins and polluting technology.

♣ Free our society live, work, and travel peacefully in space, while creating space-based habitats, schools, hotels, resorts, farms, labs, industries, elevators, and craft instead of currently planned space-based battle stations, pop-up and space-based weapons, and space flying shooters and bombers. Imagine, instead, by putting this lid on the war industry, imagine happy healthy lives filled with healing, trust building via communication, culture, music and the arts. We can evolve our intelligence, think and act in the context of a new Space Age paradigm, with understanding, compassion, peace and justice for all, and with respect for our diversity and different perspectives, while acknowledging our interconnectedness, with a love and caring that will provide a wonderful, healthy future for our children, for all the children and their children…and for all life, for all that is sacred.

III. Initiating the Space Preservation Treaty-Signing

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing is designed to approach and enroll those U.N. Member Nations which have consistently shown support of preventing the weaponization of space, and whose political will has been frustrated by procedural wrangling at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament over the past seven (7) years.

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing is an adaptation of the more structured, formal Treaty Conference (See FAQ: Space Preservation Treaty Conference:
http://www.peaceinspace.com/sp_faq.shtml )

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing Plan of Action is carried out through such actions as concurrent, interactive Canvassing, Hosting world leaders, and the Celebration phases.

CANVASSING PHASE – Canvassing Progressive Nations wishing to ban space-based weapons.

The Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) and a network of civil society Non-Governmental Organizations will canvass progressive U.N. Member Nations who have formally indicated their desire to prevent the weaponization of space. ICIS and participating NGOs will offer these Nations the opportunity to participate in the Space Preservation Treaty-Signing, by signing the Space Preservation Treaty, depositing the signed copy with the U.N. Secretary General as Treaty Depositary, and ratifying the Treaty forthwith.

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.

Like the 1967 U.N. Outer Space Treaty, the Space Preservation Treaty provides that the Treaty goes into effect after Five (5) signatory Nations have signed and ratified the Treaty. “This Treaty shall enter into force upon the deposit of instruments of ratification by five (5) Governments in accordance with paragraph 2 of this article.” [Article X (3)].

Participating signatory Nations can agree to help enroll other Nations to participate in the Space Preservation Treaty-Signing. The Space Preservation Treaty provides that: “Each State Party to this Treaty shall immediately work toward supporting other non-signatory State Parties in negotiating, signing, ratifying, and implementing this world agreement banning space-based weapons.” [Article I(2)].

INITIAL NATION CANDIDATES

♣ Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) – The list of Parties to the NPT is a starting point for Step 1 Canvassing of potential participants in the Space Preservation Treaty-Signing. (See Appendix II)

♣ The list of Middle Powers, states that are not superpowers or great powers, but still have some influence internationally, are also a starting point for the Space Preservation Treaty-Signing. (See Appendix II)

For example, progressive Latin American nations who are signatories to the NPT are among the initial Nation Candidates for the Space Preservation Treaty Signing. These include (and are not limited to):

* Argentina
* Brazil
* Bolivia
* Chile
* Ecuador
* Peru
* Venezuela

HOSTING PHASE – Hosting of Space Preservation Treaty-Signing events (Individual world leaders/presidents of countries, or in small groups).

Space Preservation Treaty-signing events can take place with authorized representatives of individual Nations or small groups of Nations (Five nations or less) at any time and place of their choosing. For example, Space Preservation Treaty signings may take place in the private offices of the authorized representative of the Signatory Nation. A signed copy of the Treaty would then be deposited with the U.N. Secretary General as Treaty Depositary.

The Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) and participating NGOs will help coordinate the signing and Treaty Depositary of Space Preservation Treaty.

CELEBRATION PHASE – Holding of Space Preservation Treaty Celebration Conference event(s), to commemorate the signing and ratification of the Space Preservation Treaty by significant threshold numbers of U.N. Member Nations, as well as indigenous and First Nation representatives.

In order to launch the Celebration Phase, an initial Space Preservation Treaty Celebration Conference could optionally take place upon the signing and ratification of the Space Preservation Treaty by Five (5) Signatory Nations.

Space Preservation Treaty Celebration Conference

Proposed Date: Upon Five (5) Signatories/Ratifications to SPT
Duration: Two days (Agenda to follow)
Location: To be announced

This vitally important Space Preservation Treaty Celebration Conference will be composed of the Leaders of the SPT Signatory U.N. Member Nations, and with community, indigenous First Nation Representatives, and more. The UN dignitaries will congregate at a designated location to celebrate their signing of the World Space Preservation Treaty that will ban ALL space-based weapons and preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all Humankind. When the first Five (5) U.N. Member Nations have signed and ratified this World Space Preservation Treaty, the Treaty will go into force and the world cooperative Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency will be established.

This two-day Space Preservation Treaty Celebration Conference will include:

(1) Plenary Sessions led by U.N. Member Nations’ leaders, discussing their region’s commitment to ban ALL space-based weapons, and their commitment to alternative and new energy sources and to global and interplanetary peace among all cultures, peoples, and life systems.

(2) Working Groups composed of U.N. Member Nations’ leaders who will discuss:
- Transforming the war industry into a cooperative world space industry thus producing a Space Age economy and a security system based on peaceful cooperative ventures
- Researching, developing and applying alternative energy on earth and in space
- Coordinating the Space Preservation Treaty-Signing
- Implementing the Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency
- Identifying Nations and a Region to host the Second Space Preservation Treaty Celebration Conference

(3) The Space Preservation Treaty Celebration Conference includes a Cultural and Musical Celebration, webcast globally.

The Space Preservation Treaty, when signed and ratified by Five (5) U.N. Member Nations, prevents the weaponization of space by establishing
   -    A permanent ban on space-based weapons
   -    A permanent ban on the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit
   -    A permanent termination of research, development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of all space-based weapons, and
   -    The establishment of an international Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency equipped to monitor outer space and enforce the ban.

The World Space Preservation Treaty, when signed and ratified by Five (5) U.N. Member Nations, allows for continued space activities not related to space-based weapons:
- Space exploration
- Space research and development
- Testing, manufacturing or deployment that is not related to space-based weapons or systems
- Civil, commercial, or defense activities (including communications, navigation, surveillance, reconnaissance, early warning, or remote sensing) that are not related to space-based weapons or systems.

On the afternoon and evening of the second day, the Space Preservation Treaty Celebration Conference will culminate with a Cultural and Musical Celebration, webcast globally.

SUMMARY

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing is an adaptation of the more structured, formal Treaty Conference (See FAQ: Space Preservation Treaty Conference:
http://www.peaceinspace.com/sp_faq.shtml )

The Space Preservation Treaty-Signing is carried out through concurrent, interactive Canvassing, Hosting Leaders, and Celebration phases.

The outcome of the Space Preservation Treaty-Signing is a functioning ban of ALL space-based weapons, operating through an independent Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency.

The Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501 c(3) foundation. Charitable contributions to ICIS are tax-exempt in the U.S. and in Canada.

ICIS CONTACT INFORMATION:

Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) – South America
PO Box 288
Loja, Ecuador
Dr. Carol Rosin
Email: rosin@peaceinspace.com
Office Tel: 011 593 94681149
Secretary: 011 593 91280849
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Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) – North America
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Vancouver, B.C. V6N3E5 CANADA
TEL: 604-733-8134
FAX: 604-733-8135
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STAR DREAMS INITIATIVE (SDI)
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APPENDIX I

SPACE PRESERVATION TREATY

The States Parties to this Treaty

Reaffirming the importance and urgency of preventing an arms race in outer space and of approving concrete proposals on confidence building which could prevent such an arms race, as set out in United Nations General Assembly Resolutions 56/535 and 55/32 on the prevention of an arms race in outer space,

Recognizing the common interest of all humankind in the exploration and non-weapons use of outer space for peaceful purposes,

Reaffirming the will of all States that the exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon, the planets and other celestial bodies, shall be for weapons-free, peaceful purposes and shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interest of all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development,

Reaffirming the provisions of articles III and IV of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, Resolution 2222(XXI), annex,

Recalling the obligations of all States to observe the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations regarding the use or threat of use of force in their international relations, including in their space activities,

Reaffirming paragraph 80 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, Resolution S-10/2, in which it was stated that in order to prevent an arms race in space further measures should be taken and appropriate international negotiations held in accordance with the spirit of the Treaty,

Affirming that it is the policy of the State Parties to this Treaty to permanently ban all space-based weapons,

Have agreed as follows:

Article I

PERMANENT BAN ON BASING OF WEAPONS IN SPACE

1. Each State Party to this Treaty shall:
(1) Implement a ban on space-based weapons; and
(2) Implement a ban on the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit; and
(3) Immediately order the permanent termination of research and development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of all space-based weapons of such State Party.

2. Each State Party to this Treaty shall immediately work toward supporting other non-signatory State Parties in negotiating, signing, ratifying, and implementing this world agreement banning space-based weapons.

3. The Secretary General of the United Nations shall submit to the General Assembly of the United Nations within 90 days of the date that three (3) State Parties have signed this Treaty, and every 90 days thereafter, a report on:
1) The implementation of the permanent ban on space-based weapons required by Section 1 of this Article I; and
2) Progress toward negotiating, signing, ratifying, and implementing this Treaty as set out in Section 2 of this Article I.

4. Nothing in this Treaty shall be construed to prohibit the following activities, provided such activities are not related to space-based weapons:
(1) Space exploration;
(2) Space research and development;
(3) Testing, manufacturing or deployment that is not related to space-based weapons or systems; or
(4) Civil, commercial, or defense activities (including communications, navigation, surveillance, reconnaissance, early warning, or remote sensing) that are not related to space-based weapons or systems.

Article II

1. Each State Party to this Treaty undertakes not to base in space any object carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, install such space-based objects or weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner. The moon, the planets, and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to this Treaty exclusively for non-weapons, peaceful purposes. The establishment of weapons-related military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military maneuvers on celestial bodies or space-based objects shall be forbidden.

2. The use of military personnel for scientific research or for any other non-space-based weapons, peaceful purposes shall not be prohibited. The use of any equipment or facility necessary for peaceful exploration or habitation of the moon, the planets or other celestial bodies, or on objects in space shall also not be prohibited.

Article III

Each State Party to this Treaty undertakes not to assist, encourage or induce any State, group of States, international organization, or other entity or program to engage in activities contrary to the provisions of this Treaty.

Article IV

Each State Party to this Treaty agrees to the establishment, funding, equipping and deployment of an Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency, whose mission is to monitor outer space and enforce the permanent ban of space-based weapons under this Treaty.

Article V

As used in Article I, the terms:

1. The terms "space" and "outer space" mean all space extending upward from an altitude greater that 80 kilometers above sea level.

2. The terms "space-based weapon" and "space-based system" mean a device capable of damaging or destroying an object or person (whether in outer space, in the atmosphere, or on earth) by -
(1) Firing one or more projectiles to collide with that object or person;
(2) Detonating one or more explosive devices in close proximity to that object or person;
(3) Directing a source or energy against that object or person; or
(4) Any other developed or undeveloped means.

Article VI

Each State Party to this Treaty undertakes to take any measures it considers necessary in accordance with its constitutional processes to prohibit and prevent any activity in violation of the provisions of the Treaty anywhere under its jurisdiction or control.

Article VII

1. The provisions of articles I and II of this Treaty shall apply to all States, regardless of whether such States are signatories to this Treaty.

2. Any State Party to this Treaty may propose amendments to the Treaty. The text of any proposed amendment shall be submitted to the Depositary who shall promptly circulate it to all States Parties.

3. An amendment shall enter into force for all States Parties to this Treaty, upon the deposit with the Depositary of instruments of acceptance by a majority of States Parties. Thereafter it shall enter into force for any remaining State Party on the date of deposit of its instrument of acceptance.

Article VIII

This Treaty shall be of unlimited duration.

Article IX

1. Two years after the entry into force of this Treaty, a conference of the States Parties to the Treaty shall be convened by the Depositary at Geneva, Switzerland. The conference shall review the operation of the Treaty with a view to ensuring that its purposes and provisions are being realized, and shall in particular examine the effectiveness of the provisions of articles I and II in eliminating the dangers of an arms race in space, and of space-based weapons.

2. At intervals of not less than two years thereafter, a majority of the States Parties to the Treaty may obtain, by submitting a proposal to this effect to the Depositary, the convening of a conference with the same objectives.

3. If no conference has been convened pursuant to paragraph 2 of this article within ten years following the conclusion of a previous conference, the Depositary shall solicit the views of all States Parties to the Treaty, concerning the convening of such a conference. If one-third or ten of the States Parties, whichever number is less, respond affirmatively, the Depositary shall take immediate steps to convene the conference.

Article X

1. This Treaty shall be open to all States for signature. Any State which does not sign the Treaty before its entry into force in accordance with paragraph 3 of this article may accede to it at any time.

2. This Treaty shall be subject to ratification by signatory States. Instruments of ratification or accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

3. This Treaty shall enter into force upon the deposit of instruments of ratification by five (5) Governments in accordance with paragraph 2 of this article.

4. For those States whose instruments of ratification or accession are deposited after the entry into force of this Treaty, it shall enter into force on the date of the deposit of their instruments of ratification or accession.

5. The Depositary shall promptly inform all signatory and acceding States of the date of each signature, the date of deposit of each instrument of ratification or accession and the date of the entry into force of this Treaty and of any amendments thereto, as well as of the receipt of other notices.

6. This Treaty shall be registered by the Depositary in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

Article XI

This Treaty, of which the English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall send certified copies thereof to the Governments of the signatory and acceding States.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto by their respective governments, have signed this Treaty, opened for signature at __________ on the ____day of __________, two thousand and ________________________.

DONE at _____________, ______________ on ____________, ____, in the year 20__.

SPT Version:
August 6, 2006
APPENDIX II

1. Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

* Afghanistan
* Albania
* Algeria
* Andorra
* Angola
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Argentina
* Armenia
* Australia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* The Bahamas
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Barbados
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Belize
* Benin
* Bhutan
* Bolivia
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Botswana
* Brazil
* Brunei
* Bulgaria
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cambodia
* Cameroon
* Canada
* Cape Verde
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Chile
* People's Republic of China
* Republic of China (Taiwan)1
* Colombia
* Comoros
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Republic of the Congo
* Costa Rica
* Côte d'Ivoire
* Croatia
* Cuba
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Djibouti
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* East Timor
* Ecuador
* Egypt
* El Salvador
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea
* Estonia
* Ethiopia
* Fiji
* Finland
* France
* Gabon
* The Gambia
* Georgia
* Germany
* Ghana
* Greece
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Holy See (Vatican City)
* Honduras
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Ireland
* Italy
* Jamaica
* Japan
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* Kenya
* Kiribati
* South Korea
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Latvia
* Lebanon
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Libya
* Liechtenstein
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Macedonia
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Mali
* Malta
* Republic of the Marshall Islands
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Mexico
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Mongolia
* Montenegro
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Myanmar
* Namibia
* Nauru
* Nepal
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Nicaragua
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Norway
* Oman
* Palau
* Panama
* Papua New Guinea
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Philippines
* Poland
* Portugal
* Qatar
* Romania
* Russia2
* Rwanda
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Samoa
* San Marino
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Saudi Arabia
* Senegal
* Serbia3
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Singapore
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Solomon Islands
* Somalia
* South Africa
* Spain
* Sri Lanka
* Sudan
* Suriname
* Swaziland
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Syria
* Tajikistan
* Tanzania
* Thailand
* Togo
* Tonga
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Tunisia
* Turkey
* Turkmenistan
* Tuvalu
* Uganda
* Ukraine
* United Arab Emirates
* United Kingdom
* United States
* Uruguay
* Uzbekistan
* Vanuatu
* Venezuela
* Vietnam
* Yemen4
* Zambia

2. Middle Powers

Non-exhaustive list of presumed middle powers

* Argentina
* Australia
* Brazil
* Canada
* Indonesia
* Israel
* Italy
* Mexico
* Netherlands
* Nigeria
* Norway
* Poland
* South Africa
* South Korea
* Spain
* Switzerland
* Taiwan
* Turkey
* Ukraine

Comments

There is current cooperation in the defense and energy sectors. Space cooperation resumed in the 1990s and there is a Joint Commission on space Cooperation that came into being in 2000. Main fields of cooperation are spaceflight, science, and exploration.
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Posted by: angelinjones | October 21, 2008 at 02:20 AM

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