MFA: excessive presence of Russian troops at the border line with Ukraine is not revealed
Russia in 2014 took more than half a dozen of observation flights partners under the Treaty on open skies (OST), and they showed no signs of " excessive strengthening of the Russian military power and weapons at the border line with Ukraine ", said the first day of the week the Director of the division on non-proliferation and observation arms of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mikhail Ulyanov.
"The Ukrainian crisis has become in a sense" test of strength " for the Contract. Last year Russia took more than half a dozen of observation flights, the main objective of which was aerial photography of large areas of Russian territory adjacent To the border line with Ukraine. Unfortunately, despite determined in the course of these flights, the lack of signs of "excessive military buildup and weapons along the border with Ukraine," the campaign of accusations against Russia has not subsided, " said Ulyanov.
According to the policy " because of this, there are sad reflections on life DON ".
"If photographic data are not used in the proof and in fact ignored When assessing the results of air monitoring adjusted to the political order, it is going to discredit this Treaty as an instrument of objective observation over the armed forces and military activities. Unfortunately, this approach begins to penetrate into other verification mechanisms that inevitably leads To further degradation of the monitoring regimes of arms control and CSBMs (confidence-building Measures and security in the OSCE space. Advise our Treaty partners very seriously, " said Ulyanov.
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