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Norway, US to conduct observation flight over Russia under Open Skies Treaty 2704152.
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Head
of Russia's National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center Sergei Ryzhkov reported
that American and Norwegian specialists will fly over the territory of
Russia under the Treaty on Open Skies. "Within the framework
of the international Treaty on Open Skies a joint US-Norway mission will
conduct an observation flight over the territory of the Russian Federation
in the period of April 27-30, 2015, on [a] Romanian Antonov An-30
observation aircraft," Ryzhkov said. |
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![Head of Russia's National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center Sergei Ryzhkov reported that American and Norwegian specialists will fly over the territory of Russia under the Treaty on Open Skies. "Within the framework of the international Treaty on Open Skies a joint US-Norway mission will conduct an observation flight over the territory of the Russian Federation in the period of April 27-30, 2015, on [a] Romanian Antonov An-30 observation aircraft," Ryzhkov said.](/images/stories/news/2015/april/Norway_US_to_conduct_observation_flight_over_Russia_under_Open_Skies_Treaty_640_001.jpg)
Norwegian and American specialists will conduct observation flight
over Russia in April 27-30 |
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Russian specialists
on board the aircraft will monitor the use of equipment and American
and Norwegian inspectors' adherence to the Treaty on Open Skies, according
to Ryzhkov.
The official stressed that the An-30 plane is not equipped with any weapons and only uses internationally-approved observation technology allowed by the treaty. The Treaty on Open Skies was signed in 1992 in Helsinki and currently applies to 34 countries, including most NATO member-states, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sweden and Finland. The treaty establishes a regime of unarmed aerial observation flights over the entire territory of its participants with the aim of boosting transparency of military activities. |
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