The Russian Foreign Ministry reminded that while the Russian law on denunciation of the Open Sky Treaty (Don) did not enter into force, the United States remains the opportunity to revise its position by agreement. This was stated by the deputy head of the foreign policy department Sergey Ryabkov, reports TASS.
“Although, frankly, I do not really believe that it will happen,” the diplomat added.
The State Duma Committee on International Affairs will consider the draft law on the denunciation of the Open Sky Treaty on Tuesday, May 18.
before that it became known that the United States had not yet decided on its objection to Don. According to the representative of the State Department, one of the factors affecting this decision is non-compliance with Russia of this contract.
An open access agreement concluded in 1992. The agreement allows participating countries to carry out intelligence flights over each other’s territory to follow military activities and compliance with existing arms control treaties. The United States came out of the Don at the end of November 2020, and on January 15, 2021, the domestic procedures for the exit from the Treaty of the beginning of Russia.