UN Secretary-General Antoniou Guterryas expressed concern about the US decision not to return to an open sky agreement (DON), considering what was happening “erosion of the arms control regime between the United States and Russia.” About this RIA Novosti said in the Security Council office.
According to the representatives of Guterres, he appreciated the commitment of obligations among other states. “The Secretary-General is aware of the decision of the United States not to return to the Agreement on the Open Nebu. The Secretary-General expressed regret for the US output from Don in November last year, as well as in connection with the recent steps of the Russian Federation towards exiting this contract,” commented in the UN.
On May 27, the administration of American president Joe Bayiden notified Russia that he did not intend to return to Don. Soon, the head of the Commission of the Council on the Protection of Association Andrei Klimov considered that without the presence of the United States Russia’s participation in the agreement “does not make sense.”
An open access agreement concluded in 1992. The agreement suggests that the participating countries have the right to reconnaissance over the territory of each other to follow the military activities and compliance with the existing arms control treaties. The United States came out of the Don at the end of November 2020, and on January 15, domestic procedures for exit from the Treaty of the beginning of Russia.