Li Baodong, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs delivers opening speech at The 3rd ASEAN Regional Forum Workshop in Beijing on 30th Nov., 2015. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

Representatives from over 20 different countries and organizations are gathered in Beijing to discuss security issues in outer-space.

Officials from China, Russia and the US are among those taking part in the 2-day workshop, which is tasked with space policies and military controls in earth's orbit.

Chinese vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong has delivered a speech to open the event.

"As a space power, China has always advocated the peaceful use of outer space, opposing weaponisation and an arms race in outer space."

China is a signatory to the 1967 treaty crafted during the height of the Cold War which bans countries from putting weapons of mass-destruction into orbit.

China, along with Russia, also put forward a pair of additional resolutions to the UN General Assembly in 2008 to try to prevent the weaponisation of Space.