Open Skies Treaty Document

It establishes a program of unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants.

Open skies treaty document. Distribution of active quotas for observation flights in the year 2015. The treaty on open skies entered into force on january 1 2002 and currently has 34 party states. 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. The idea of surveillance was first proposed during the early years of the cold war by former u s.

The open skies treaty is an agreement that allows countries to monitor open skies treaty member countries arms development by conducting surveillance flights over each other s territories. Tehran tasnim the kremlin regrets the united states walkout from the treaty on open skies because without the american side participating in it the document loses viability russian. The kremlin regrets the united states walkout from the treaty on open skies because without the american side participating in it the document loses viability russian presidential spokesman. Organization for security and co operation in europe.

2015 01 19 15 decision no. 9 13 on revision three of decision number seventeen to the treaty on open skies the format in which data is to be recorded and exchanged on recording media other than photographic film 01 19 15 decision no. Purposes of this treaty is not equipped to carry and employ weapons. The term observation flight means the flight of the observation aircraft conducted by an observing party over the territory of an observed party as provided in the flight plan from the point of entry or open skies airfield to the point of exit or open skies airfield.