{"id":1438073,"date":"2021-05-28T06:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T22:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=1438073"},"modified":"2021-05-28T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T23:34:00","slug":"un-aviation-body-to-launch-probe-into-belarus-plane-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1438073\/un-aviation-body-to-launch-probe-into-belarus-plane-diversion","title":{"rendered":"UN aviation body to launch probe into Belarus plane diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"header\"><span class=\"city\">MONTREAL<\/span>, <span class=\"country\">Canada<\/span>\u00a0&#8212; The UN civil aviation agency will launch an investigation into the May 23 diversion by Belarus of a European flight and arrest of a dissident on board, it announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council &#8220;decided to undertake a fact-finding investigation of this event,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It added that, at a meeting, the body &#8220;underlined the importance of establishing the facts of what happened, and of understanding whether there had been any breach by any ICAO Member State of international aviation law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The council &#8220;requested the ICAO Secretariat to prepare an interim report to the Council for a subsequent meeting of the current session.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Belarus&#8217;s strongman President Alexander Lukashenko sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet Sunday to intercept a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius\u00a0carrying opposition journalist and activist Roman Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, 23<\/p>\n<p>His parents pleaded Thursday for international help to get him released, and the G7 global powers also demanded he be freed, with the EU&#8217;s foreign policy chief threatening economic sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The ICAO, of which Belarus is a member, has no power to order sanctions. 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