Military personnel from the US, Canada and Norway will conduct observation flights over Russia from February 25 to 29, it said. the Russian website TASS. According to the website, Russian experts will be on a Norwegian SAAB 340 to oversee that the observation flight complies with treaty requirements.
The Open Skies Treaty was signed in 1992 and entered into force in 2002, and has included Moscow's participation from the beginning. Currently, the Treaty has the participation of 34 nations. Observation flights are made in the territories of the United States, Canada, European countries and Russia.
In practical , the treaty allows signatory states to conduct observation flights over any part of the territory of the observed State Party to monitor military activities in accordance with agreed quotas for those missions.
It is expected that the same will be done by Russia on the USA, Canada and Norway and that, as in this case, military personnel from the observed countries will be in Russian aircraft to supervise the observation flights.
