Arms Control Issues

From 18 to 22 May, a Ukrainian inspection group will verify a specified area in Belarus and conduct an evaluation visit to the 38th Guards Independent Mobile Brigade under the Agreement between Belarus and Ukraine on Additional Confidence- and Security-Building Measures.

The aim of the inspection is to prove that no military activity subject to preliminary notification under the Agreement is conducted in the specified area, as well as to evaluate the reliability of the information on the personnel and materiel of the verified unit, presented to the OSCE member states under the 2011 Vienna Document.

At the same time, a group of Polish inspectors will conduct an observation flight over Belarus and Russia on board an An-30B observation aircraft under the Open Skies Treaty.

The inspection is aimed at verifying military activities in the observed states.