Roscosmos will not allow the US to privatize the Moon, the head of the Russian State Corporation Dmitry Rogozin told "Komsomolskaya Pravda" radio.
"In any case, we will not allow anyone to privatize the Moon. This is contrary to international law, " he said, in particular, recalling that the first Russian automatic mission to the Moon is planned for 2021. Russia, then the USSR, last sent a spacecraft to the Moon in 1976.
In early May, Reuters, citing unnamed sources, reported that Trump's administration is preparing a draft of a new international agreement on mining on the Moon, it is planned to involve Canada, Japan, the European Union and the UAE, and Russia will not be among the participants in the agreement at first.
Rogozin compared these plans to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan when American military operations took place without coordination with the UN and the international community. Later, NASA invited Roscosmos to join the international Artemis Accords or the development of the Moon.
In early April, Donald Trump signed an order enshrining the right of Americans to extract space resources and ordered six months to discuss agreements with other countries on the Moon and other space bodies.
Roscosmos then called these plans aggressive and harmful to international cooperation.
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