TASS informs about this with reference to the representative of Russia in the organization, Sergei Gudkov.
“We advocated an honest and transparent investigation of the act of unlawful interference in the activities of civil aviation by the air navigation and legal departments of the ICAO Secretariat,” Gudkov said.
He also said that many countries, including the UK and France, believe that the incident should be investigated from the point of view of a threat to flight safety.
At the same time, Russia insisted that this case should be investigated from the point of view of Appendix 17 to the Chicago Convention “Security.
Protection of International Civil Aviation from Acts of Unlawful Interference ”.
Earlier it was reported that ICAO decided to investigate the incident with an emergency landing in Minsk of the plane of the Irish airline Ryanair.
The first results of the investigation should be announced by June 25.
On May 23, a Ryanair plane landed in Minsk on a flight from Athens to Vilnius.
According to the Belarusian authorities, this was due to the report of a bomb on board.
The founder of the NEXTA Telegram channel recognized as extremist in Belarus, Roman Protasevich, was on the plane.
He was detained after landing.