Open Skies Surveillance Treaty
The us withdrew from the treaty on open skies sunday.
Open skies surveillance treaty. Trump administration confirms u s. The open skies treaty allows 35 nations including russia to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over each other s territory in order to assure that nations are not preparing for military action. The treaty on open skies entered into force on january 1 2002 and currently has 34 party states. In the may announcement pompeo cited russia s failure to comply with the treaty as the reason for the planned exit.
Is leaving open skies surveillance treaty the 34 nation agreement allows the u s russia and other countries to fly their aircraft over each other s territory.