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Celebrating Open Skies
12 March 2012
In 2012, the Open Skies Treaty marks the 20th anniversary of its signing and the 10th anniversary of coming into force.
"By this step to convince the world that we are providing as between ourselves against the possibility of a great surprise attack, thus lessening danger and relaxing tension..."
In 1955 then-US President Eisenhower proposed mutual aerial inspections by the major Cold War powers. The proposal was rejected, only to be put into practice 20 years later under the auspices of the OSCE, the then-Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE).
Read more: www.osce.org/oscc/105510