Georgia will no more cooperate with Russia within the frames of Open Sky Treaty
13:08 . 06/04
Georgia has ceased cooperation with Russia within the frames of Open
Sky Treaty, Georgian media write about this.
The treaty which was signed in 1992 and to which 34 states are
members, gives an opportunity to its members to collect information on
the military forces of one other through a program of unarmed aerial
surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants.
Tbilisi motivates this step with the fact that Russia makes use of the
treaty clause according to which “the flight path of an observation
aircraft shall not be closer than… ten kilometres from the border
with an adjacent State that is not a State Party.”
Georgia says since 2010 Russia has attempted to make use of the treaty
to legalise the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.