{"id":63588,"date":"2024-04-25T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T01:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/25\/russia-vetos-un-resolution-nuclear-weapons-space-arms-race"},"modified":"2024-04-25T10:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T01:14:29","slug":"russia-vetos-un-resolution-to-prevent-nuclear-arms-race-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63588","title":{"rendered":"Russia vetos UN resolution to prevent nuclear arms race in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow described the security council resolution, which would have called on countries not to deploy weapons of mass destruction in outer space, a \u2018dirty spectacle\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Russia has vetoed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/19\/us-japan-nuclear-weapons-ban-space-un-war\">UN security council resolution<\/a> calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space, describing it as \u201ca dirty spectacle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/19\/us-japan-nuclear-weapons-ban-space-un-war\">sponsored by the United States and Japan<\/a>, would have called on all countries not to develop or deploy nuclear arms or other weapons of mass destruction in space, which are already banned under a 1967 international treaty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/25\/russia-vetos-un-resolution-nuclear-weapons-space-arms-race\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow described the security council resolution, which would have called on countries not to deploy weapons of mass destruction in outer space, a \u2018dirty spectacle\u2019Russia has vetoed a UN security council resolution calling on all nations to prevent a d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,441,419,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-united-nations","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63589,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63588\/revisions\/63589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}