Open Skies Treaty Russia

After sunday the united states and russia will have only one major treaty between them reports fox news as the us followed through on its vow six months ago to pull out of the open skies.

Open skies treaty russia. It establishes a program of unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants. Sunday was the deadline after a 6 month warning on withdrawal according to state department deputy spokesman cale brown. Has officially withdrawn from the 1992 open skies treaty a pact with russia that permitted unarmed reconnaissance flights over each other s territories. President trump s administration will give official notice of the u s s intent to exit the open skies treaty officials announced thursday.

The treaty on open skies entered into force on january 1 2002 and currently has 34 party states. Russia s implementation and violation of open skies however has undermined this central confidence building function of the treaty and has in fact fueled distrust and threats to our. We understand that many of our allies and partners in europe still find value in the treaty and we are grateful for the thoughtful feedback they have offered us during the course of our review of these. The trump administration withdrew from the open skies treaty which was signed between former cold war foes in 1992 to set up unarmed reconnaissance flights over each other s territory to.

The open skies treaty was meant to contribute to international security but it has been twisted and perverted in its implementation and now serves russian purposes inimical to that security. The trump administration has officially withdrawn from a decades old arms agreement with russia secretary of state mike pompeo said on sunday. The 34 nation agreement allows the u s russia and.