Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday at the session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) countries, "We are concerned over US plans to deploy weapons in space that are already being implemented. This will lead to another qualitative stage of an arms race," according to TASS.

"As you know, Russia and China have already presented a draft proposal on preventing deployment of weapons in space at the disarmamanet conference in Geneva. We appreaciate it that BRICS countries support annual resolutions on this pressing issue at UN General Assembly sessions," he added.