U.S. Decision Not to Rejoin Open Skies Leaves Just 1 Treaty Agreement with Russia
Source: Newsweek
After the Biden administration announced Thursday that the United States would not be re-entering the Open Skies Treaty, the U.S. has only one remaining arms-control treaty with Russia.
In an effort to promote trust between Russia and the West, the Open Skies Treaty allows the involved countries to freely fly over other nations to gather military information. The Trump administration withdrew the U.S. from the treaty last year, an action that Biden reviewed once he took office.
The remaining New START Treaty with Russia might have expired earlier this year as well due to inaction by the Trump administration, but Biden issued a five-year extension for it when he took office. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman informed Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Thursday of the U.S. decision to not rejoin Open Skies.
Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are due to meet on June 16 in Geneva, Switzerland, where they will discuss the relational decline between the U.S. and Russia, the Associated Press reported.
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