New York-SANA
UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for the United Nations, has expressed concern of the United Nations over an arms race after the United States suspended the Open Skies Treaty.
Reuters quoted Dujarric as saying today that disrupting agreements such as the Open Skies Agreement could lead to a new arms race, adding: "We express our concern about the erosion of the arms control system between the United States and Russia ... This system is beneficial to the entire international community, especially in the issue of containing the arms race. The Strategic. ”
Dujarric stressed that "ending such agreements without replacing them with something else could lead to destabilizing actions."
It is reported that the "Open Skies" treaty was signed in 1992 and became one of the confidence-building measures in Europe after the Cold War. It has been in operation since 2002 and allows participating countries to collect information publicly about the armed forces and each other's activities.