Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release November 3, 1993
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
The President has signed the United States instrument of
ratification of the Treaty on Open Skies. This multilateral
aerial observation regime represents the broadest and most
flexible effort to date to promote openness and transparency of
military forces and activities.
The Treaty responds to the new demands of the post-Cold War world
and the desire of many states to find innovative means of
strengthening confidence and predictability. It will give all
participants an agreed way to obtain information about foreign
military forces and activities of concern to them. Under the
Treaty, each participating state may conduct a certain number of
unarmed flights anywhere over the territory of the other
participants, using approved observation techniques. The data
collected during these flights will be available to all
participants. This combination of breadth of coverage,
flexibility of use and availability of information enables the
Open Skies regime to make a unique contribution to building
confidence and enhancing stability.
Present signatories include all NATO Allies, the East European
members of the former Warsaw Pact, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus,
Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. The states of the former Soviet Union
and all CSCE states are eligible to join on an accelerated basis.
The Treaty is open to any nation by consensus approval. The
model developed in the Treaty could also be important to the
reduction of local tensions and the prevention of conflict in
regions beyond the scope of current signatories.
The Open Skies concept was first put forward by President
Eisenhower in 1955, and then revived in a Treaty proposal by
President Bush in 1989. It was signed on March 24, 1992 and
received the unanimous advice and consent of the U.S. Senate on
August 6, 1993. Ratification in several countries has been
completed and in others is underway. The United States looks
forward to ratification soon by all signatories and the Treaty's
early entry into force.
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