Since coming to office in January 2017, Trump has withdrawn from two other major arms control pacts.
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he plans to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty with Russia, the third arms control pact Trump has abrogated since coming to office.
The Open Skies agreement between Russia, the United States and 32 other countries, mostly members of the NATO alliance, permits one country’s military to conduct a certain number of surveillance flights over another each year on short notice. Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Russia “flagrantly, continuously violates its obligations” under the pact.
Last year Moscow also blocked flights meant to survey Russian military exercises, normally allowed under the pact. But Russian deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko said on Thursday: “The withdrawal by the US from this treaty would be not only a blow to the foundation of European security… but to the key security interests of the allies of the US.”
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