Belarus will never agree with the conclusions of the ICAO report, which is based on incomplete information and lack of necessary international cooperation. This was announced with regard to the promotion by the West of the case of the Ryanair plane in the airspace of Belarus last May. Today, a clear position of Minsk was once again stated by the Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations.
Valentin Rybakov pointed out that the very creation of the ICAO working group for investigation contradicts the UN mandate and sets a dangerous precedent for manipulating the basics of civil aviation security.
Valentin Rybakov, Permanent Representative of Belarus to the UN:
“We still have not received answers to the key questions sent to the other countries involved to conduct an unbiased and comprehensive investigation. Additional information from the Belarusian side was not requested at all. The report is full of errors, inaccuracies, non-aviation and biased approaches. It is inadmissible to use in the report the information from an anonymous source in the absence of proper technical expertise. In its turn, the written testimony of the real air traffic controller, duly provided by the Belarusian side to the ICAO, was not taken into account.
"The Belarusian side stated that the content of the alleged audio recording provided by the US authorities to the working group, allegedly made by the air traffic controller, is a deception and forgery. The working group admitted that there was neither any military aircraft escorting, intercepting or forcing the Ryanair airline to land in the airspace of Belarus, which testifies that the commander of the foreign aircraft personally made a decision to land at the airport of Minsk," Rybakov said.
Russia and China support Belarus.
Representative of Beijing called for lifting the air sanctions. The Permanent Representative of Belarus recommended the Council to read the video of Roman Protasevich. He tried to explain that the aviation sector should not be used as a platform for political manipulation and blackmail.
Belarus criticizes ICAO report on situation with Ryanair plane
31 октября 2022












