By Press Association 2021
The Ryanair plane with registration number SP-RSM, carrying opposition figure Raman Pratasevich, was diverted to Minsk after a bomb threat
The Foreign Secretary has welcomed a UN agency probe to understand what led to the “grave violation of international law” resulting in a Ryanair flight being diverted to Belarus, allowing a prominent critic to be arrested.
Dominic Raab said he hoped the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) fact-finding investigation into the events that forced the landing of Ryanair flight FR4978 in Minsk on Sunday will discover the “full circumstances” leading up to what he branded an “attack” on global aviation rules.
By Press Association 2021
The Ryanair plane with registration number SP-RSM, carrying opposition figure Raman Pratasevich, was diverted to Minsk after a bomb threat
The Foreign Secretary has welcomed a UN agency probe to understand what led to the “grave violation of international law” resulting in a Ryanair flight being diverted to Belarus, allowing a prominent critic to be arrested.
Dominic Raab said he hoped the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) fact-finding investigation into the events that forced the landing of Ryanair flight FR4978 in Minsk on Sunday will discover the “full circumstances” leading up to what he branded an “attack” on global aviation rules.
27 May 2021
The Foreign Secretary has welcomed the decision by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), supported by an overwhelming majority of international delegations, to launch an international fact-finding investigation into the events relating to the forced landing of Ryanair flight FR4978 in Belarus on Sunday 23 May.
The announcement follows the Belarusian authorities’ diversion of a passenger flight from Greece to Lithuania. The Ryanair jet carrying over 100 passengers was diverted to Minsk on the basis of a false bomb scare in order to arrest an opposition journalist - in a further move by the Belarusian authorities in its ongoing war against independent journalism and opposition voices.
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