Written question asked by Lord Kennet (Labour), in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 1 November 1995. It was answered by Baroness Chalker of Wallasey (Conservative) on Wednesday, 1 November 1995.

Chalker of Wallasey, RtHonBaroness

Question: Whether the 1967 Space Treaty gives an undoubted right, to those individual states that are capable of doing so, to conduct unlimited military espionage and target acquisition on other sovereign states, and if so whether they will cite the passages in the treaty text which allow this, in the light of Article 1 of the treaty, which states that "exploration and use of outer space ... shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic and scientific development, and shall be the province of all mankind".

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