Benefit Of Open Skies Treaty
The open skies treaty is widely seen as a positive and innovative development in the realm of arms control aiming to reduce the chronic deficit in global security governance.
Benefit of open skies treaty. The treaty is designed to enhance mutual understanding and confidence by giving all participants regardless of size a direct role in gathering information about military forces and. A us withdrawal from the agreement would shift the blame from a non compliant moscow onto washington fuelling anti americanism and perhaps calls for a us military withdrawal from europe. Leocha to the advisory committee for aviation. Charles leocha is chairman of travelers united formerly consumer travel alliance which advocates for travelers to us legislators regulators and industry associations.
The treaty on open skies entered into force on january 1 2002 and currently has 34 party states. It establishes a program of unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants. Unilateralism is setting a bad example by encouraging others to look after their self interest sacrificing the common good. The us secretary of transportation has appointed mr.
This question and answer article was published in a special edition of the emirates open skies inflight magazine.