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TREATY ON OPEN
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Date-wise Events |
- March 24, 1992: The treaty
was signed on this day.
- January 01, 2002: The Open
Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed on this
day, officially came into force on this day.
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Description |
- Currently it has 34 States as parties.
- India is not yet a party to it.
- It establishes a program of unarmed aerial surveillance
flights over the entire territory of its participants.
- It is one of the most wide-ranging international efforts
to date promoting openness and transparency of military
forces and activities.
- Negotiated by the then-members of NATO and the Warsaw
Pact, the agreement was signed in Helsinki, Finland, on this
day.
- The United States ratified it in 1993.
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