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Moscow, Jun 7 (EFE) .- Russian President Vladimir Putin promulgated the law on Russia’s withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty, which previously received the green light from both houses of the Russian Parliament.
The document was published on Monday on the official Russian legal information portal.
The Russian Federation Council (Senate) ratified the measure last week after the State Duma (Lower House) did the same on May 19.
The multilateral agreement to guarantee transparency regarding arms control in which some thirty countries participate was already abandoned by the US last year.
Furthermore, in late May Washington notified Moscow that the new US Administration under President Joe Biden will not return to the deal.
The Open Skies Treaty, signed in 1992 and in force since 2002, allows more than thirty countries to fly over any part of the territory of the rest of the participants and photograph from the air with the aim of gathering information on military activities.
Washington argued for the withdrawal over Russia’s alleged refusal to restrict flights over some of its regions, including the Kaliningrad enclave, and near the Georgian breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Moscow denied the accusations and held the US responsible for the breach of the pact while trying to save it in several meetings in Vienna with the other partners.
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