Members of the US Congress: The Trump administration violates the law

Washington, (ST) – A group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate confirmed that President Donald Trump’s administration violated the law by declaring its intention to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty.

Reuters quoted the group that includes Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, Senators Mark Warner and Jack Reid as saying in a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Mark Esper that “the administration did not send Congress a notice 120 days before the exit process as required by law” and demanded the White House stop Immediately after trying to withdraw from the treaty.

The United States announced on May 22 that it would withdraw from the 35-nation Open Skies treaty allowing unarmed surveillance flights over member countries. It was the Trump administration’s latest move to pull the country out of a major global treaty.

The letter from Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Senators Mark Warner and Jack Reed, the top Democrats on the Intelligence and Armed Services committees, called on the administration to immediately discontinue efforts to withdraw.

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