The foreign Ministry had prepared answers to the questions that followed the US withdrawal from the Treaty on open skies.

in the document on the Internet representation of the Agency stresses that He is unofficial, but based on facts, not on speculation.

foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow rejects the complaint of the US capital, associated with the ban on flights in the ten zones along the borders with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

the foreign Ministry later said that the whole area of Georgia is not available For the Russian mission "open skies" that violates core provisions of the Treaty.

The preservation of the Treaty in April 2018 Russia declared the limits on the fly in the ten areas along the Russian border in the Caucasus, in Tbilisi the performance of its obligations.

"The destructive position of Tbilisi has not changed. In the end, Russia was forced to deny sightseeing flight in the ten zones in the process of mutual mission Sweden, Germany, USA over our territory in April 2019, " - said the Minister.

They added that the Russian Federation is ready to admit to these zones of observers in the failure of Georgia's current position is incompatible with the performance of the Contract.

Also in the international Ministry explained the limitation of the range of flights over the Kaliningrad region. There commented that certain agreement parties, having the right to fly from the airfield near Moscow Kubinka in the Range of up to 5,500 kilometers, " in 2012-2014, a substantial part of it (about 1,600 kilometers) used over the Kaliningrad oblast ".

Their aircraft many times crossed the region inside and out, creating limits For the use of airspace and To operate only in the area of international Khrabrovo airport.

This led to financial losses.

"Our attempts to come to a common opinion with them about some reasonable restraint have had no success. It is for this reason we had to reduce costs by declaring the largest range of flights over the Kaliningrad region (500 kilometres). It is not contrary to any agreement or other subsequent decisions adopted by Its participants ", - reported in the explanations on the Internet representative office of the foreign Ministry.

A range of five hundred kilometres gives an opportunity during each flight over the Kaliningrad region to observe any point, even the most distant from the aerodrome, the Ministry added.

the foreign Ministry Also noted that Russia fulfills commitments to maintain the transparency of military activities, including military exercises.

"Evidence of this in the process of the exercise" Center-2019 " was a complete agreement proposed by the United States and Canada plan missions (both the first and 2nd sections of the observation flight) without any adjustments ", - reported in the explanations.

The Treaty on open skies was signed in 1992. The document was one of the measures to strengthen confidence in the European Union after the cold war. It operates since 2002 and provides the opportunity to participating countries to openly collect information about military forces and activities of one another. It was signed by 34 countries.

the U.S. President Donald trump may 21 announced that the Russian Federation does not fulfill its obligations, for this reason, the Washington withdraws from the Treaty. However, He did not rule out the development of a new Contract.

Russia has many times denied the charges in the USA. The Russian foreign Ministry said that Moscow will agree only on a reciprocal basis, and any ultimatums from the capital of the USA is unacceptable.



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