szilagyi specifically to china's response and explanation with respect to their abstention, they agreed in importance of this and he specifically said we agree with the need to reinforce and to build upon the structure of the outer space treaty. they acknowledge and appreciate the prevention of an arms race in outer space language come the idea in our usica becomes resolution that the cd has also been discussing these issues and is of one body right now stems a legally binding mechanisms associate with the arms control and architecture here. but they abstained and then supported the russian amendment. so again i don't know what their internal thinking is. i can only comment on what they themselves have said. in expedition of votes, they said they supported the russian amendment, , which i should be clear, it specifically calls upon states for all time to prevent the placement of weapons in outer space. and then, and then talks about the prevention of force with the threat of force against space, from space to earth, or earth to space. this is a topic that is been actively discussed for