Open Skies Treaty Ost
Washington november 22.
Open skies treaty ost. Yet as explains a report in the economist surveillance aircraft provide key information that still cannot be gathered by satellite sensors such as thermal imaging data. 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. Organization for security and co operation in europe. The treaty on open skies entered into force on january 1 2002 and currently has 35 party states.
While initially imagined as a key part of multiple arms control deals for over a decade many in washington believe russia is in regular non compliance with ost protocols. Last week the trump administration announced that the us will be pulling out of the open skies treaty ost a major arms control measure that aided transparency and confidence building among 34. 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 treaty established a regime of unarmed observation flights over the territories of state parties.
It specifies inter alia quotas for observation flights. The us withdrawal from the ost is a shrewd one sided game. Treaty on open skies. Significance of the open skies treaty the ost was signed in 1992 much before the advent of advanced satellite imaging technology which is currently the preferred mode for intelligence gathering.
The united states is no longer a state party to the treaty on open skies. It establishes a program of unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants. The trump administration has formally announced its intention to withdraw from the 2002 open skies treaty ost a critical multilateral agreement involving 35 states which allows specially equipped reconnaissance aircraft to overfly the territories of member states and in doing so contribute to the kind of transparency necessary to minimize the possibility of conflict by keeping all members. Trump administration confirms u s.