WARSAW — A
Belarusian passenger plane flying from Minsk to
Barcelona turned back on Wednesday, data from website Flightradar24 showed,
after Poland said it may not be able to enter French airspace.
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European Union leaders have directed officials to draw up
new sanctions against Belarus and work out a way to ban Belarusian airlines
from the bloc’s skies after a Ryanair flight carrying a dissident journalist
was forced to land in Minsk.
Belarusian state carrier Belavia flight 2869 from Minsk had
been scheduled to land in Barcelona on Wednesday afternoon.
“This pilot received information from us that the French
airspace was blocked ... and he may have a problem with entering,” Polish Air
Navigation Services Agency spokesman Pawel Lukasiewicz said by telephone.
Belavia declined immediate comment on the flight.
French Junior Minister for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari
said on Monday that France had suspended the authorization for Belavia flights
to cross its territory.
Belavia says it has been banned from flying to Lithuania,
Latvia, France, Sweden, Britain, Finland, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.
Poland currently allows Belavia flights to enter its
airspace. A Belavia flight from Minsk to
Warsaw landed in the Polish capital at
1220 GMT on Wednesday, according to the website of the city’s Chopin Airport.
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