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You are here: Home / Press Room / Center in the News / Trump’s Withdrawal From the Open Skies Treaty Jeopardizes US National Security

October 17, 2019

Trump’s Withdrawal From the Open Skies Treaty Jeopardizes US National Security

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was quoted in The Nation about the Open Skies Treaty.

Arms control expert Alexandra Bell, who worked on the Open Skies Treaty and served as the senior adviser in the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, told me that it is not even clear that “the president has a good idea of what the treaty is and why it is important,” and that the move has been met with confusion and alarm among our closest allies.

According to Bell, “Various parties to the agreement, including the UK, France, Germany and Canada, have all requested more information on the US policy position.” Allies were caught off guard, because “less than a week ago, the US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had just participated in a ceremony celebrating the 1500th flight under the agreement.”
 

Bell told me that it appears that “there is a small group within the White House who have tried to keep the relevant agencies and departments away from the decision, not dissimilar to the lack of interagency process that defined the withdrawal from the INF.” Read more

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