The Joe Biden admiration has mentioned that it won't return again to the Treaty on Open Skies (TOS) that US former President Donald Trump walked out of it at the pretext that Russia violated the international treaty.
This decision came as Biden seeks to show firmness against Russia after a number of steps that proved openness and returning to international treaties that the previous administration had left them.
Since he landed in the White House last January, the Democratic president hurried to return to some treaties and international institutions such as United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the World Health Organization (WHO) in addition to the hard negotiations to return to the nuclear agreement with Iran.
We know that the United States of America (USA) relinquished the Paris treaty lately last year at the orders of former President Donald Trump.
Trump had spent most of his presidential term in weakening a number of environmental and climate protective barriers of the country.
But the current administration sees that treaty as an unprecedented framework for international activity.
The purpose of the treaty is simple and wide to help all avoid catastrophic global heating, build resilience across the world towards the negative effects of climate change that we see now.
Thus, the threats resulted from climate change become at the core of priorities of the internal and international policies of the USA.
The USA has returned to the World Health Organization (WHO) and participated in efforts aiming at distributing the anti-Corona vaccines (COVID-19), its treatment, and diagnosis it across the planet.
The USA also offers funds now and provides human support and honors its financial obligations towards the UN organization.
It is worth noting that the Trump administration had walked out of the WHO after accusations of biasing to China.
Trump used to criticize the organization's response to the pandemic as the USA is one of the most damaged by it.
The USA seeks now to revive the nuclear agreement which Iran reached with international powers but the Trump administration withdrew from it in 2018.
US President adopts for the first time the plan of withdrawal that goes with his predecessor's decision, I mean leaving the treaty of Treaty on Open Skies (TOS).
The TOS is a treaty signed in 1992 by twenty-seven states in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland.
It was in effect by January 1st, 2000.
It includes now thirty-four countries ant it allows reconnaissance in space air of the signatories.
The treaty also especially, aims at sustaining mutual understanding and trust through giving all participants a direct role in gathering information about the military forces and the interesting activities.
But Russia restricts flights over some specific areas that make Washington think that Moscow deployed medium-range nuclear arms that threaten Europe.
On November 22, 2020, the USA announced that she was no longer a signatory of the TOS.
After that, Moscow declared in mid-January that she is going to leave that treaty.
Following the Russian withdrawal from the TOS, New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) is the only major treaty in the security field that is still in effect between the Russian and USA nuclear superpowers.
New START indicates an accord signed in April 2010 between US former President Barak Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.
It seeks to reduce the strategic attack warheads (intercontinental ballistic missiles) in the USA and Russia by 30% and reduce the launching pads by 50%.
This reveals to us that the USA now adopts a great part of Obama's heritage and most of those who are above fifty-year-old worked for the Obama administration, among them Anthony Blinken, US Secretary of State who is close to Biden and supports multi-lateral cooperation within the frame of the international organizations.
Blinken many times criticized the Trump administration for isolationism and unilateralism.
President Joe Biden shows great firmness towards Russia in response to Moscow's activities which he considers harmful (interference in US Presidential election of 2016, Cyber-attacks, deployment of forces at the borderline with Ukraine, and arresting of Alexi Navalny.
But Biden will search finally to find common ground to attain understanding on matters related to international security.
Translated by Ahmed Moamar
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