United States says it will not rejoin Open Skies Treaty with Russia
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Last Updated: May 28, 2021, 03:12 PM IST
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The nearly 30-year-old accord, known as the Open Skies Treaty, was put in place to ensure that Russia and the United States could monitor military movements by using sophisticated sensors in aircraft that would fly over certain territory of the other’s country.
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In this photo provided by the State Duma, deputies attend a session at the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 19, 2021
The Biden administration has informed Russia that the United States will not rejoin a treaty that allowed the nations to conduct surveillance of each other, even though President Joe Biden harshly criticized his predecessor during last year’s campaign for pulling out of the agreement, State Department officials said Thursday.
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What do the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom all have in common? They are all officially recognized as possessing nuclear weapons by the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that entered into force in 1970. They are also countries that are presently involved in talks that are trying to resurrect the JCPOA, the agreement they had signed in 2015 with Iran that put restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program with the goal of preventing Iran from making nuclear weapons.
Ironically, the United States and Russia presently possess over 90% of the world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. Both countries have pulled out of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces agreement, and are now pursuing the production of new and more dangerous nuclear weapons.
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December 25, 1991 – Resigns as president of the USSR.
1993-2000 – Founds and serves as president of Green Cross International, an environmental organization.
1996 – Runs for election in Russia, but receives only 1% of the vote.
November 24, 2001 – Is elected head of the Social Democratic Party of Russia.
February 8, 2004 – Wins a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, for “Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Beintus: Wolf Tracks.” He shares the award with Sophia Loren and former US President Bill Clinton.
May 2004
January 2006 – Along with a business partner, Gorbachev buys 49% of shares in the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
August 2007
October 2007 – Becomes head of a new Russian political movement, Union of Social Democrats.