Hope this isn't too political for here , but I would hope we could all agree to condemn a certain recent act of "air piracy" and diversion of a passenger airliner under serious false pretences for the ulterior motive of arresting a dissident.
Today, the government of Poland closed its airspace to Belarussian airlines. The Belavia flight to Barcelona this morning turned into a scenic tour of Belarus :
Toby, I do not think it too political at all, in fact I am pleased that other governments as well as the EU and Britain have banned them from flying into our airspaces.
A country which resorts to air piracy in order to capture some-one for just speaking his mind against the present communist leader is nothing short of disgraceful.
A report from the BBC states that the foreign ministry in Minsk called the present ban of that aircraft from flying over Poland as "Virtual Air Piracy"!!!
My answer to that is that the foreign ministry are a bunch of hypocrites!!
Nigel.
I used to be an optimist but with age I am now a grumpy old pessimist.
Not political at all Toby. Much as I’m not a fan of Brexit or our current “leaders” (for want of a better word) The upside is we were able to ban them straight away without 2 days of debate.
I believe that a warrant should be issued by the International Criminal Court against Lukashenko( ? spelling) . It would mean he never could leave Belarus or his cronies in the former Soviet Union
, but I would hope we could all agree to condemn a certain recent act of "air piracy" and diversion of a passenger airliner under serious false pretences for the ulterior motive of arresting a dissident.
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