WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s nominee as U.S. representative to a U.N. aviation body suggested on Sept. 30 that Belarus should be temporarily barred from voting at the council in response to its May diversion of a Ryanair flight.
Reuters: Belarus should face further action over plane diversion, US nominee says
A photo taken on May 23, 2021, shows a Boeing 737-8AS Ryanair passenger plane (flight FR4978, SP-RSM) from Athens, Greece, that was intercepted and diverted to Minsk on the same day by Belarus authorities, landing at Vilnius International Airport, its initial destination.
