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Washington, November 22 (dpa-ELTA). The United States officially withdrew from the Open Skies agreement on Sunday.
The United States warned half a year ago that it was withdrawing from a treaty aimed at building trust among states by allowing each other’s troops to be monitored.
According to this 1992 Under an agreed arms control treaty, 34 participating states, including the United States and Russia, can conduct unarmed surveillance flights over each other’s territory.
Moscow has shown more interest in air surveillance of European states than the United States, so an American withdrawal will not necessarily render the treaty immediately useless.
Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov demanded written assurances from other NATO members that data collected during the flights would no longer be transferred to the United States. The minister also stated that Russia will continue to carry out surveillance missions over US military bases operating in Europe.
At the time, US officials said Moscow had violated the Open Skies Treaty by not allowing flights over some areas, including Kaliningrad and the border with Georgia.
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