{"id":1054,"date":"2009-02-07T12:58:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T12:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2009\/02\/07\/space-preservation-note-biden-says-us-will-pursue-missile-plan-russia-opposes\/"},"modified":"2009-02-07T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T12:58:55","slug":"space-preservation-note-biden-says-us-will-pursue-missile-plan-russia-opposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/space-preservation-note-biden-says-us-will-pursue-missile-plan-russia-opposes\/","title":{"rendered":"SPACE PRESERVATION NOTE: Biden Says U.S. Will Pursue Missile Plan Russia Opposes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SPACE PRESERVATION NOTE: Biden Says U.S. Will Pursue Missile Plan Russia Opposes<\/a><\/h3>\n
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SPACE PRESERVATION NOTE: <\/strong> U.S. Missile Defense is the trojan
\nhorse of the weaponization of space.  It is a $trillion-dollar weapons
\nsystem to continue the research & development for space-based
\nweapons, and the defense contract mandate for the weaponization of
\nspace.  The Obama administration has now formally committed to
\ncontinue the space weaponization strategy first undertaken by the GW
\nBush administration when it unilaterally announced the cancellation of
\nthe ABM Treaty on Dec. 13, 2002, in order to pursue U.S. Missile
\nDefense, and hence the long-term weaponization of space.  The Obama's
\nso-called plan to ban space-weapons is hereby unmasked as a 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign
\npropaganda ploy, or at best a disingenuous political tactic by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nFor an authentic strategy which will result in the ban of all
\nspace-based weapons, including space-based weapons of mass-destruction,
\nplease support the Space Preservation Treaty.  Text and supporting
\nresearch articles and expert media interviews at:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.peaceinspace.org<\/a><\/p>\n

\nThank you.
Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd
Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS)
Vancouver, B.C.<\/p>\n

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February 8, 2009<\/div>\n

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\nBiden Says U.S. Will Pursue Missile Plan Russia Opposes\n<\/p>\n<\/h1>\n

By HELENE COOPER<\/a> and NICHOLAS KULISH<\/a><\/div>\n

MUNICH \u2014 The United States will pursue a missile defense plan that has angered the Kremlin, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.<\/a>
\nsaid Saturday, in a signal that the post-cold-war tensions that have
\nflared recently between Washington and Moscow could continue into the
\nnew Obama administration.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Biden did not say whether the administration would move
\nforward with a plan to place the system in Eastern Europe, which had
\nbeen the core of recent tensions. He also offered conciliatory words,
\nsaying, "It is time to press the reset button, and to revisit the many
\nareas where we can and should be working together with Russia<\/a>."<\/p>\n

The highly anticipated speech, seen as the first major outline of
\nthe new administration's relations with the world, came just days after
\nKyrgyzstan's president announced a decision to close a United States
\nbase there that is crucial to the war in Afghanistan, which Mr. Obama
\nhas made his biggest foreign policy priority. The announcement was made
\nin Moscow, and many American officials concluded that the Russians had
\npressured Kyrgyzstan as part of their campaign to reassert control over
\nformer Soviet republics. <\/p>\n

It was unclear on Saturday if Mr. Biden's statements on missile
\ndefense were meant to suggest that the Obama administration had decided
\nto continue some of the Bush administration's tougher stands on Russia
\nor were part of a bargaining strategy. Russian cooperation is
\nconsidered important to American attempts to stop both Iran<\/a> and North Korea from continuing with their nuclear programs. <\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Russia's leaders have also sent mixed messages: offering kind words about President Obama<\/a>,
\nthen suggesting that the United States would need to do more to win
\nRussia's support \u2014 including addressing complaints about American plans
\nto expand NATO<\/a> and ending plans for the missile defense system that the Bush administration had been pursuing.<\/p>\n

President Bush had said that the system, which would include sites
\nin Eastern Europe, was needed to defend against countries like Iran,
\nbut Russia has always seen it as a way of countering its own arsenal. <\/p>\n

Mr. Biden also rejected the notion of a Russian sphere of influence
\nand said that Mr. Obama would continue to press NATO to seek "deeper
\ncooperation" with like-minded countries. "We will continue to develop
\nmissile defenses to counter a growing Iranian capability, provided the
\ntechnology is proven and it is cost-effective," Mr. Biden said. <\/p>\n

His wording virtually echoed the stance on missile defense that Mr.
\nObama took during the presidential campaign, but was notable because
\nMr. Biden did not announce a strategic review of the issue, which
\nadministration officials had considered as a way to defuse tensions
\nbetween Washington and Moscow. <\/p>\n

Although his language was tempered, Mr. Biden also said, "We will not agree with Russia on everything."<\/p>\n

"For example, the United States will not recognize Abkhazia and
\nSouth Ossetia as independent states. We will not \u2014 will not \u2014 recognize
\nany nation having a sphere of influence. It will remain our view that
\nsovereign states have the right to make their own decisions and choose
\ntheir own alliances."<\/p>\n

Mr. Biden's speech came a day after Deputy Prime Minister Sergei B. Ivanov<\/a>
\ntold the same group that Moscow would not deploy its own missiles on
\nthe Polish border if the United States reviewed its missile defense
\nplan. <\/p>\n

But any chance for a rapprochement between the United States and
\nRussia at this conference all but evaporated, foreign policy experts
\nsaid, after the announcement on the Kyrgyz base. Mr. Obama plans to
\nsend as many as 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan over the next
\ntwo years; shaky overland supply routes through Pakistan would make it
\ndifficult for the United States to adjust to the loss of the base, in
\nManas, Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n

Mr. Biden also talked about Iran, suggesting that the administration
\nwas both willing to be more conciliatory than Mr. Bush's, but also was
\nwilling to continue his tough policies if necessary. "We are willing to
\ntalk to Iran," Mr. Biden said, in a departure from the Bush
\nadministration. But Mr. Biden quickly tacked back to a refrain common
\nduring the last years of the Bush presidency, and spoke of offering
\nIran's leader a choice: "Continue down your current course and there
\nwill be pressure and isolation; abandon the illicit nuclear program and
\nyour support for terrorism and there will be meaningful incentives."<\/p>\n

In an interview at the conference, Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of
\nthe international affairs committee in the Russian Parliament, said he
\nwelcomed Mr. Biden's comments about "a need to listen to partners," as
\nopposed to President Bush's approach "that everything is already
\npredecided, everything is clear and should be done the way the American
\nadministration thinks about it," which would make it easier to reach
\nagreement on many issues "including the antimissile dispute."<\/p>\n

Mr. Biden's speech was the highlight of a security conference that
\nattracted a host of global leaders and diplomats, most of whom seemed
\nprimed to hear how the United States and its new leadership viewed the
\nworld. They erupted into applause when Mr. Biden walked onto the stage.\n<\/p>\n

But for all the talk of a new era in relations between the United
\nStates and the world, old sores remained, and with no sign of healing
\nsoon. "Let's be frank about it, there's more and more distrust between
\nthe European Union<\/a> and Russia," President Nicolas Sarkozy<\/a> of France said.<\/p>\n

It was at this security conference two years ago when the new
\ntension between the United States and Russia leapt to the fore when Vladimir V. Putin<\/a>, then Russia's president, lashed out against the United States over its use of force. On Saturday, Chancellor Angela Merkel<\/a>
\nof Germany struck a conciliatory note. "It is in our interest to
\nincorporate Russia in this new security architecture," she said. <\/p>\n

On Friday, Ali Larijani<\/a>, the speaker of Iran's Parliament, said that Mr. Obama's decision to send George J. Mitchell<\/a>,
\nhis new envoy, to the Middle East to listen and not to dictate was "a
\npositive signal," but also said that, in terms of Iran, "the old carrot
\nand stick clich\u00e9"\u2014 the very strategy that Mr. Biden outlined\u2014 "must be
\ndiscarded." http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/08\/washington\/08biden.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print<\/a><\/p>\n

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