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US Concerned Over Russia's Technological Successes In Open Skies Treaty - Defense Ministry
Daniyal Sohail Published October 21, 2019 | 02:50 AM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 21st October, 2019) By introducing advanced technologies into the Open Skies Treaty (OST), Russia has become five to six years ahead of its partners, and it was against this background that the US intelligence agents began to accuse Moscow of violating the treaty in order to prevent Russian observation flights over its territory, the head of Russian Defense Ministry's National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, Sergei Ryzhkov, said.
Earlier, the chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Eliot Engel, said the United States considered to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty.
"We are about five to six years ahead of our partners in the direction of introducing advanced technologies into the OST," Ryzhkov told the official newspaper of the Russian Armed Forces, Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star).
Ryzhkov added that the US National Security Council and the intelligence community "began to seriously think about how to prevent Russian digital flights over its territory and developed a vigorous campaign to accuse Russia of violating military agreements.
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"Every year, the website of the US State Department publishes analyzes of the implementation of international obligations in the field of arms control, which paid considerable attention to the 'unfair' implementation of the Open Skies Treaty by Russia," the official said.
The treaty on open skies was signed in 1992 and has become one of the confidence-building measures in Europe after the Cold War. It has been operating since 2002 and allows its participants to carry out aerial surveillance as part of a program of scheduled observation flights, with the aim of gathering information about military forces.
More than 30 countries are participating in the program created to boost the transparency of military activities.
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