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I feel that it is very important that cooperation should be extended between EU Member States and other European States that have a formidable tradition in research in this field, such as Russia, and countries further afield, in order to harness the potential for space exploration for peaceful purposes. This will make a significant contribution towards addressing the serious problems and meeting the urgent needs faced by the human race.
I therefore deplore the fact that most Members of this House voted against the proposals for amendments tabled by my group, which sought to ensure that ‘space must be used solely for peaceful purposes, for the benefit of the entire human race’ and which vehemently oppose ‘any use of space for developing or supporting military activities’. We are equally appalled that this House has called on the EU to make ‘a significant financial commitment that specifically provides for developing space-based research into global security’, acknowledging the contribution that the ‘space policy could make to Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common European Security and Defence Policy’ and calling for defence-related companies to coordinate programmes in order to achieve this objective. Space policy would thus become part of the framework of the militarisation of space, something that I find deeply worrying. I therefore voted against."@en1
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