Eight months after the Boeing 777 vanished, the international squadrons of reconnaissance aircraft and fleets of frigates and icebreakers are gone.
The crux of the accord with President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia calls for 2,000 international observers and NATO reconnaissance flights to monitor promised withdrawals of troops and police from Kosovo, where Serbian forces have mounted a crackdown against the mainly ethnic Albanian population.
Last April, the Washington protested to Moscow after a Russian fighter jet intercepted a US reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the Sea of Okhotsk.
And China is alarmed at both North Korea's reckless behaviour earlier this year it tried to force down an American reconnaissance plane over international waters and its impact on Japan.
2 March: Four North Korean fighter jets intercept a US reconnaissance plane in international air space and shadow it for 22 minutes.
They are still trying to undermine the dollar, and they felt bold enough to order their vessels to attack an unarmed Navy reconnaissance ship in international waters in the South China Sea this March.
The following year, Kim felt emboldened enough to shoot down an unarmed U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane in international airspace, an incident resulting in the largest loss of American servicemen in a single incident during the Cold War.
And when North Korea's fighter jets recently buzzed an American reconnaissance aircraft flying in international airspace off its coast, Mr Roh had called on America, not North Korea, to show restraint.
In that lawless expanse on the Afghan border, security officials said, Lashkar could help other militant groups plan complex attacks against Afghan and international targets, possibly in exchange for reconnaissance on Indian targets from its militant allies who have operatives in Afghanistan.
Turkey has stated the reconnaissance aircraft was in international airspace when it was shot down, while Syrian authorities stated it was inside Syrian airspace.
