The Russia-United States Working Group on Space Security completed 13 hours of discussion on July 28 in Vienna as part of their bilateral consultations on strategic stability. The U.S. delegation included officials from the Departments of State, Defense, and Energy, as well as the National Security Council. While the talks were substantive and will be continued, they did not discuss cooperation in space, but were more like the “deconfliction” arrangements between U.S. and Russian military forces in Syria, to avoid conflict.
“In this meeting, the two sides exchanged views on current and future space threats, policies, strategies, and doctrine, and discussed a forward-looking agenda to promote safe, professional, and sustainable activities in space,” the State Department press service said in a statement.
