Open Skies Treaty between Hungary and Romania

The Open Skies Treaty between Hungary and Romania, formally "Agreement Between the Government of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Hungary on the Establishment of an Open Skies Regime" (Acord din 11 mai 1991 intre Guvernul Romaniei si Guvernul Republicii Ungaria privind stabilirea unui regim de Cer Deschis in Romanian) was a bilateral agreement between Hungary and Romania. It entered into force on 27 February 1992 and consisted of agreed-upon surveillance overflights between the two countries to assess the strength and disposition of opposing military forces.

Open Skies Treaty between Hungary and Romania
Map showing Hungary (green) and Romania (orange) within Europe
Signed11 May 1991
LocationBucharest, Romania
Effective27 February 1992
Condition2 ratifications
Expiration31 December 2001
Signatories2
PartiesHungary, Romania
Ratifiers2
LanguagesRomanian, Hungarian

It was the first such "Open Skies" Agreement and a precursor to the Treaty on Open Skies that entered into force between NATO members and members of the former Warsaw Pact in 2002, to which Hungary and Romania are both signatories.[1] A demonstration flight was carried out in June 1991.[2]

The main motivation for the Treaty was to demonstrate stable relations between the two countries after in March 1990, almost 20,000 ethnic Romanians and ethnic Hungarians clashed violently at Târgu Mureș. The clashes were about Transylvania, a region in now-Romania that has gone back and forth between the two countries several times, and which is home to a substantial population of Hungarians.[2]

See also

References

  1. Dunay, Pál (2004). Open Skies: A Cooperative Approach to Military Transparency and Confidence Building. United Nations Publications: UNIDIR (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research). p. 265. ISBN 978-92-9045-164-8.
  2. Lindley, Dan (2007-05-13). Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes. Princeton University Press. pp. 315–6. ISBN 978-0-691-12943-3.
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