Russian aircraft head off U.S. destroyer in Black Sea : RIA - Yahoo News Canada
▻https://ca.news.yahoo.com/russian-aircraft-head-off-u-destroyer-black-sea-025718595.html
Russian military aircraft were scrambled to head off a U.S. warship that was acting “aggressively” in the Black Sea, state news agency RIA reported on Saturday, but the Pentagon denied any unusual behavior.
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Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez said the USS Ross was “well within international waters at all times, performing routine operations.”
"The U.S. Navy operates routinely in the Black Sea, in accordance with international law," Lainez said, noting the Ross’s deployment to the Black Sea had been publicly announced.
Bon, ben nous revoilà 30 ans en arrière avec un R. Reagan donnant les instructions pour affirmer le droit de « passage innocent » et déclenchant les « incidents » de Crimée …
1986
▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Black_Sea_incident
The U.S. Department of State’s instructions to the American embassy in the Soviet Union noted the U.S. “would not want to lend any validity to a Soviet position that their domestic law was at all relevant in determining U.S. navigational rights under international law”.
et 1988
▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Black_Sea_bumping_incident
The United States believed there was no legal basis for a coastal nation to limit warship transits to sea lanes only. Subsequently the U.S. Department of State found that unlike the English-language text of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Russian-language text of Article 22, paragraph 1 allowed the coastal state to regulate the right of innocent passage whenever necessary. Following the incident, the Soviet Union expressed a commitment to resolve the issue of innocent passage in Soviet territorial waters.
débouchant finalement sur une baisse de la tension et un accord.
On 11 July 1988, Chief of the Soviet General Staff Sergei Akhromeyev and Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff William J. Crowe issued a joint statement in Washington aimed at avoiding dangerous military activities. On 12 June 1989, the Agreement on the Prevention of Dangerous Military Activities was signed in Moscow by Crowe and the new Chief of the Soviet General Staff Mikhail Moiseyev.
Accord qui doit toujours être en vigueur
▻http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Dangerous_Military_Activities_Agreement
Déjà, en juillet 2013, devant « la recrudescence des activités militaires russes dans le monde », ce blog rappelait les procédures à respecter et les fréquences à utiliser…
▻http://mt-milcom.blogspot.fr/2013/07/russian-us-procedures-for-prevention-of.html