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Conference on Disarmament: China, Russia Try to Open Space Dialogue In an effort to break a long-standing deadlock at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, China and Russia yesterday announced that they are willing to discuss space arms control issues, even if those talks are not focused on producing a formal treaty (see GSN, June 27). “We naturally would prefer a negotiating mandate on space and not a discussion approach,” said Russian Ambassador Leonid Skotnikov. The Russian ambassador and Chinese Ambassador Hu Xiaodi said, however, that they are willing to compromise to move talks forward. The current proposal was put forward earlier this year by leading diplomats from Algeria, Belgium, Chile, Colombia and Sweden, who were all looking for a way to move the conference forward (see GSN, Jan. 24; Alexander Higgins, Associated Press/Moscow Times, Aug. 8).
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