NATO restricts access to its HQ by Belarusian diplomats
Xinhua
01 Jun 2021, 06:05 GMT+10
BRUSSELS, May 31 (Xinhua) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has restricted access to its headquarters by members of Belarus diplomatic mission, the alliance s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said Monday, citing assessment of security measures at the headquarters. The move came after a Ryanair passenger plane en route from Athens to Vilnius was diverted to land in Minsk on May 23. The Irish airline Ryanair said that the flight FR4978 was directed to an airport in Minsk as crew on the plane had been alerted to a possible security threat by Belarusian authorities, adding that nothing untoward was found.
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MAY 28, 2021
Belarus’s forced diversion of a commercial Ryanair flight under false pretenses, traveling between two member states of the European Union, and the subsequent removal and arrest of Raman Pratasevich, a Belarusian journalist, are a direct affront to international norms. These events took place amid an escalating wave of repression by the Lukashenka regime against the aspirations of the people of Belarus for democracy and human rights. In response to the events of May 23 and the Lukashenka regime’s continuing attack on fundamental freedoms, the United States is taking the following actions:
The United States has joined the public condemnation of the events of May 23 at the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Group of Seven (G7), and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). We will continue to advocate at these bodies for action against the Lukashenka reg