{"id":44307,"date":"2022-10-31T21:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/belarus-slams-ryanair-flight-diversion-report-at-un-security-council\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"belarus-slams-ryanair-flight-diversion-report-at-un-security-council","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44307\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus slams Ryanair flight diversion report at UN Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>October 31, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> Belarus\u2019 envoy to the UN Valancin Rybako\u016d has said the launch of the International Civil Aviation Organization\u2019s task force to investigate the 2021 Ryanair incident contradicted the ICAO mandate, setting a \u201cdangerous precedent for manipulating the fundamentals of civil aviation security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The remarks he made at a UN Security Council briefing on the ICAO\u2019s findings were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sb.by\/articles\/rybakov-na-sovbeze-oon-doklad-ikao-izobiluet-oshibkami-netochnostyami-neaviatsionnymi-i-neobektivnym.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">quoted<\/a> by <span>SB.by<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cFor many years now, western states have been waging a large-scale political, economic and information war against Belarus&#8230; Today\u2019s meeting is another manifestation of that war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> Rybako\u016d slammed the ICAO\u2019s report as biased and written under western nation\u2019s pressure.<\/p>\n<p> On May 23, 2021 a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius was forced to land at a Minsk airport. The authorities arrested two passengers, opposition blogger and activist Raman Pratasievi\u010d and his girlfriend Sofya Sapega (Safija Sapieha).<\/p>\n<p> Sapega, a Russian national, is now serving a six-year sentence for allegedly administering an opposition Telegram channel. Pratasievi\u010d is still under investigation and is believed to be cooperating with the state.<\/p>\n<p> EU airlines stopped flying over Belarus after the incident, and Belarusian carriers were barred from entering the bloc\u2019s airspace.<\/p>\n<p> On July 19, the ICAO Council said the 2021 Ryanair flight diversion by Belarus was unlawful as the bomb threat was \u201cdeliberately false\u201d and was \u201ccommunicated to the flight crew upon the instructions of senior government officials of Belarus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the ICAO, it endangered the safety of the aircraft and violated the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation and the Montreal Convention, regulating international carriage by air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 31, BPN. 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