Space Preservation Treaty (Official Text as of August 14, 2008) - English version

Space Preservation Treaty

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The States Parties to this Treaty

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

Reaffirming that outer space plays an ever-increasing role in the future

development of humankind,

Emphasizing the rights to explore and use outer space freely for peaceful

purposes,

Keeping outer space from turning into an arena for military weapons confrontation, to assure security for all in outer space and safe functioning of space technology,

Recognizing that prevention of the placement of weapons and of an arms

race in outer space would avert a grave danger for international peace and security,

Desiring to keep outer space as an environment where no weapon of any kind is placed,

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 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 on the prevention of an arms race in outer space,

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,

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 all space-based weapons and war in space

(A) Summary of Treaty - The Space Preservation Treaty (the “Treaty”) bans war in space, and bans any and all covert space-based weapons programs, including those funded under unacknowledged secret access space (“Black Budget”) programs, established, funded or operated by any State Party to this Treaty, any State, any organization, corporation, partnership, group, individual or syndicate or by any other means. This Treaty establishes an independent, international ombudsman agency – the Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency – to monitor any and all possible war in space and /or space-based weapons activity on land, sea, in the atmosphere, and in outer space, and to enforce this permanent ban.

(B) Space-based weapons –

(1) Each State Party to this Treaty shall implement a permanent ban on research, development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of any and all space-based weapons.

(2) Such permanent ban shall extend to any and all research, development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of any and all space-based weapons, whether performed directly by an agency of a State Party to this Treaty; by any organization, corporation, partnership, group, individual or syndicate acting under contract to a State Party to this Treaty; by any organization, corporation, partnership, group, individual or syndicate; or by any organization, corporation, partnership, group or syndicate acting in any unacknowledged secret access programs of any kind; or by any other entity or means, whether covert or overt, classified or unclassified, on land, sea, in the atmosphere, or in outer space.

(C) Anti-satellite and missile defense weapons - Each State Party to this Treaty shall implement a ban on research, development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit. This shall include a ban on research, development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of space-based anti-satellite weapons, space-based anti-ballistic missile systems, space-based missile defense systems or space-based other anti-satellite systems, including anti-satellite systems placed in orbit or installed on structures or bodies in outer space.

(D) Dual use technologies (Space Hazards) - Each State Party to this Treaty shall implement a ban on research, development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of space-based dual use technologies which permit such technologies, intended for commercial, civil, or scientific purposes, to be used also for space-based weapons, space-based anti-satellite, or space-based missile defense purposes. The Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency shall establish licensing requirements for any research, development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of space-based technologies for use against space hazards such as asteroids and near earth objects.

(E) Weaponization of space objects – Each State Party to this Treaty shall implement a ban on research, development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of space objects, such as global positioning systems, space platforms and satellites, and space craft, that are specifically mandated to conduct or enhance war on ground, sea, air or in space.

(F) General ban - States Parties undertake not to place in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying any kind of weapons, not to install such weapons on celestial bodies, and not to station such weapons in outer space in any other manner; not to resort to the threat or use of force against outer space objects or beings in outer space; not to assist or encourage other states, groups of states or international organizations to participate in activities prohibited by this Treaty.

(G) War in space - States Parties undertake not to plan, research, develop, test, implement, mandate, or engage in any act of aggressive war in space, and not to threaten or use force in space against any other State Party, State, organization, group, or being in space.

(H) Denial of access to space – States Parties undertake to guarantee the common interest of all humankind in the exploration and non-weapons use of outer space for peaceful purposes, and not to engage in denial of access to space, or the act of attempting to deny the lawful use of outer space to any other State, organization or being. State Parties agree that any State, organization or being that engages in denial of access to space shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency, which shall enjoin such denial of access to space.

(I) Decommissioning of space-based weapons – States Parties undertake to immediately and verifiably decommission any and all space-based weapons that they have caused to be placed in space prior to the effective date of this Treaty. State Parties agree that any State, organization or individual that has placed a space-based weapon in space prior to the effective date of this Treaty shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency, which shall verifiably decommission such space-based weapons.

(J) Tactical and Strategic Nuclear Weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction in space –

Each State Party to this Treaty undertakes not to:

(1) base in space any object carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of tactical or strategic weapons, including weapons of mass destruction;

(2) install such space-based objects or weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner.

(K) Moon, Planets & Celestial Bodies - 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 in space, installations and fortifications for the testing of any type of military space-based weapons and the conduct of military maneuvers on celestial bodies or with space-based objects that are to be used as space-based weapons shall be forbidden.

(L) Peaceful, scientific exploration and habitation - 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 II

Definition of Terms in this Treaty

For purposes of this Treaty:

a) The terms "space" and "outer space" mean all space extending upward from an altitude greater that 100 kilometers above Earth’s sea level;

b) The term “outer space object” or “space-based object” means any device, designed for functioning in outer space, being launched into an orbit around any celestial body, or being in the orbit around any celestial body, or on any celestial body, or leaving the orbit around any celestial body towards this celestial body, or moving from any celestial body towards another celestial body, traveling or placed in outer space by any other means;

c) The “use of force” or “threat of force” means any hostile actions against

outer space objects or beings in outer space including, inter alia, those aimed at their destruction, damage, temporarily or permanently injuring, normal functioning, deliberate alteration of the parameters of their orbit, or the threat of these actions.

d) The term “space-base weapon” means and includes, without limitation:

(i) any device placed in outer space, based on any physical principle, specially produced or converted to eliminate, damage or disrupt normal function of objects in outer space, on the Earth or in its air, as well as to eliminate population, components of biosphere critical to human existence or any form of life or beings, or to inflict damage on them. A weapon will be considered as “placed” in outer space if it orbits the Earth at least once, or follows a section of such an orbit before leaving this orbit, or is stationed on a permanent basis somewhere in outer space.

(ii) any device in space that is capable of any of the following:

(1) damaging or destroying an object (whether in outer space, in the atmosphere, or on Earth) by--

(A) firing one or more projectiles to collide with that object;

(B) detonating one or more explosive devices in close proximity to that object;

(C) directing a source of energy against that object, including molecular or atomic energy, subatomic particle beams, electromagnetic radiation, directed energy, plasma, or extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation or some other source;

(D) employing magnetic energy in any way, including to propel projectiles; or

(E) employing any other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means of damaging or destroying.

(iii) any device placed in space capable of, or intended for, inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a being or a population, or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a being or a population,

(1) through the use of space-based weapons systems using radiation, electromagnetic, sonic, laser, directed energy or other energies directed at individual beings or targeted populations for the purpose of electronic harassment, mood management, or mind control of beings or populations;

(2) by expelling chemical or biological agents in the vicinity of a person or being in space;

(3) through the use of any of the means described elsewhere in this Article I(d).

(iv) any device placed in space and intended or mandated as a weapon, including but not limited to the following:

(1) electronic, magnetic, electromagnetic, or information weapons;

(2) high altitude ultra low frequency weapons systems;

(3) plasma, electromagnetic, magnetic, sonic, or ultrasonic weapons;

(4) laser and directed energy weapons systems;

(5) strategic, theater, or tactical weapons or weapons;

(6) chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons; and

(7) weapons originating from Off-planet cultures.

(e) Space-based environmental weapons - The term “space-based weapon” shall also include, and not be limited to:

(i) any weapons system which weaponizes a natural ecosystem in space;

(ii) any weapons system one of whose components is placed in space and one of whose components weaponizes a natural ecosystem such as the ionosphere, upper atmosphere, climate, weather or tectonic systems.

(iii) any weapons systems using "scalar wave interferometry," a technology where two or more longitudinal, ultra-low frequency waves are “aimed” at an intersecting point, at which time they interact in a unique way, using this scalar energy to weaponize the Ionosphere (60 – 800 km in altitude), which is in space. Such space-based "scalar wave interferometry” weapons system weaponizes the Ionosphere in order to carry out the following types of space-based weapons attacks:

(1) SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) space-based radiofrequency weapon;

(2) Space-based environmental weapon – Weather, climate & earthquake (tectonic) warfare;

(3) Space warfare weapons system;

(4) Space-based Missile defense system;

(5) Space-based scalar energy warfare against land and population targets, including cities, industrial sites, buildings, populations and beings;

(6) Space-based extremely low frequency (ELF) weapon for electromagnetic harassment and mood manipulation of target populations and beings;

(7) Space-based biological and binary weapons system against populations and beings;

(8) Damage or destruction upon a space object, a target population, being, municipality or region on land, air or in space.

(f) The term “being” shall include and not be limited to any human being, animal, and any living being on Earth or in Space.

Article III

Public Safety – Verification and enforcement of permanent ban on war in space

and space-based weapons

Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency

(A) The States Parties find that banning war in space and the weaponization of space is hereby considered an urgent matter of public safety of the human population on land, sea, in the atmosphere and in outer space.

(B) After the signing and ratification of this Treaty by five States, the provisions of this Treaty shall apply to all States, regardless of whether such States are signatories to this Treaty.

(C) Each State Party to this Treaty agrees to the establishment, funding, equipping and deployment of an independent international ombudsman agency, the Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency.

(D) The Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to monitor any location on land, sea, air, and space for activities related to research, development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of any and all space-based weapons, and to verify and enforce the permanent bans of space-based weapons, space-based weapons system decommissions, and prohibitions of space-based weapons under this Treaty. The jurisdiction of the Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency shall extend to the territory of all State Parties to this Treaty, to the territory of all States, and to all land, sea, atmosphere and space.

(E) The Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to monitor and verify any space-based weapons-related activities in violation of this Treaty undertaken by any agency of any State Party to this Treaty, any State, any organization, corporation, partnership, group, individual or syndicate, regardless of the location of such activities, on land, sea, atmosphere or space.

(F) Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency Conference - Six (6) months from the date of entry into force of this Treaty under Article VIII hereof, the then signatories of this Treaty shall convene an Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency Conference. All of the States signatory to this Treaty at the time of the opening of the Conference shall be entitled to participate in and approve the formation of the Outer Space Peacekeeping Agency, including its legal statute, jurisdiction, mission, functions, administration, funding, regulations, operation, staffing, and collaborative forms of work.

Article IV

Duties of State Parties and of the U.N. Secretary General

(A) Each State Party to this Treaty undertakes to contact and urge other non-signatory State Parties to sign, ratify, and implement this Space Preservation Treaty.

(B) The Secretary General of the United Nations shall submit to the General Assembly of the United Nations within 90 days of the date that five (5) State Parties have signed and ratified this Treaty, and every 90 days thereafter, a report on:

(i) The implementation of the bans and prohibitions of this Treaty; and

(ii) Progress toward negotiating, signing, ratifying, and implementing this Treaty.

(C) 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 this Treaty anywhere under its jurisdiction or control.

(D) 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.

(E) Nothing in this Treaty can be interpreted as impeding the rights of the States Parties to collaborate, explore and use outer space for peaceful purposes in accordance with international law, which include but are not limited to the Charter of the United Nations and the Outer Space Treaty of 1967.

Article V

Amendments to this Treaty

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

(B) 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 VI

Duration of this Treaty

This Treaty shall be of unlimited duration.

Article VII

Review Conference

(A) Two years after the entry into force of this Treaty, a conference of the States Parties to this Treaty shall be convened by the Depositary at Geneva, Switzerland or another designated location. The conference shall review the operation of this 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 this Treaty in eliminating the dangers of an arms race in space, confrontations in space or from space, and of space-based weapons.

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

(C) If no conference has been convened pursuant to paragraph (B) of this article within two years following the conclusion of a previous conference, the Depositary shall solicit the views of all States Parties to this 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 VIII

Entry into Force of Treaty

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

(B) 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.

(C) Entry onto Force - This Treaty shall enter into force upon the deposit of instruments of ratification by five (5) Governments in accordance with paragraph (B) of this article, and in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

(D) 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.

(E) 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.

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

(G) The authorized Representative of each Signatory State Party to the Space Preservation Treaty shall sign and date the Space Preservation Treaty and deposit a copy of the Signed Treaty with the U.N. Secretary General as Treaty Depositary as soon as possible.

Article IX

Official Languages

This Treaty, of which the English, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, 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__.

 

Comments

[Winifred G. Barton]

Just found this excellent - organized space -
thank you - Winifred

[Old Chair]

You guys are absurdly naive. My father worked at Ford Aerospace in the mid 70's and took a "death oath" and got a clearance to work on technical manuals and he said that the mission to the moon in 1969 was entirely a MILITARY MISSION. The whole space race with the Russians was a cover. We put stuff on the moon that can sense what people are saying on earth. He also stated that we are so far ahead of the Russians that it isn't even a contest. He also lost all interest in a lifelong fascination with UFO's after that. We always used to talk about UFO's but after he worked there he never did.

[jj]

wow old chair.... you're a retard