The US is ready to cooperate constructively with Russia to resolve the disputed situation around the Open Skies Treaty. This was stated by a representative of the State Department on Friday, December 29. At the same time, Moscow's response steps in Washington were again called "unilateral violation of obligations". "The United States respects and will continue to fulfill its obligations under the Treaty on Open Skies and remain ready to resolve issues related to its implementation," the US diplomat told RIA Novosti.. Restrictive measures against Russia, which the US reported earlier, he considers only "the cancellation of some of the flexible opportunities" introduced by Washington "in good faith". However, the representative of the State Department did not comment on Moscow's specific instructions to violate the points of the agreement by the American side. At the same time, he repeated that the United States had previously recorded Russia's retreats from the norms of the agreement, and the latest restrictions on flights over the Kaliningrad region, as well as a ban on flights along the 10 km corridor on Russia's borders with South Ossetia and Abkhazia and a ban on deviation from agreed ones flight routes under the pretext of force majeure, initiated by Russia, considered it inadmissible. Despite this, he made it clear that the State Department is ready to discuss the disagreements that have arisen and even to cancel the restrictions imposed earlier if Russia abolishes its.
On the eve of the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova said that Moscow was fed up with unfounded accusations of Washington about alleged violations of Russia by the Treaty on the open sky, so from January 1, 2018.
she is forced to retaliate. In particular, from the new year will be canceled the previously allowed overnight stays at a number of airfields when conducting observation flights involving the United States.