Space is for all: India calls for UN pact to prevent arms race in space

India has said outer space should remain a realm for cooperation, not conflict, calling for a legally binding international instrument to prevent an arms race in space.

"India is a major space-faring nation.

Our space programme has both developmental and security dimensions," Member of Parliament Sudha Murty said here on Tuesday, while delivering India's statement on outer space at the UN General Assembly First Committee.

"India believes that outer space belongs to all of us.

We are one Earth, one family with one future.

It is our view that outer space should remain a realm for cooperation, not conflict," she said.

Noting the emergence of new actors in the outer space domain, Murty said dual-use space technologies and assets had become a reality.

"A difference of opinion continues on approaches to preventing an arms race in outer space and on which approach should take priority," she said.

India reiterated its preferences for a legally binding instrument on the Prevention of an Ar