The Trump administration is preparing to withdraw from a major arms treaty designed to reduce the risk of military miscalculations that could lead to war
An announcement could be made tomorrow, an administration source tells CNN.The treaty which was signed in 1992 allows member countries to conduct short-notice, unarmed, reconnaissance flights over the others' country entire to collect data on military forces and activities.
In early March, Amb. Jim Gilmore, the US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe , said that the administration was seeking"reciprocity" from Moscow on the agreement."We think that we have to be holding the Russians strictly to account on the Open Skies Treaty," he said."The President's policy is that in all treaties that there needs to be reciprocity.
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