European Union (EU) officials appear to have learned the lessons of their failure in the past five years to win international approval of a proposed international code of conduct in outer space and are reorienting the effort under the banner of humility and a willingness to consult other nations. U.S. hostility, once a show-stopper for the code of conduct, has been muted with the code's latest draft. But developing countries remain concerned that the code will have the effect of locking up useful orbits just as emerging nations are getting ready to use them, according to presentations made during a two-day conference on space security organized by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).
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