The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed the final US output from the Open Sky Treaty (Don). In the diploction received a notice from Washington that the United States will not return to Don. This is reported by TASS.
“Confirm”, “said in the Russian ministry.
Earlier on May 27, the administration of the American president Joe Bayiden notified Russia, which does not intend to return to the Agreement on the Open Sky (Don). As reported by the Associated Press with reference to the source, the US Deputy Secretary of State Wajdi Sherman was stated in a conversation with the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Ryabkov.
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.