Russian Federation demands to open the sky over Europe and the US: the Foreign Ministry complained to sanctions against civil aviation

The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the violation of the Chicago Convention of 37 countries of the West and demanded that ICAO "effective and impartial" response to the situation. Closing airspace and sanctions against Russian civil aviation "is a violation of the Chicago Convention by" the Western countries. Such a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation appealed to the International Organization of Civil Aviation (ICAO), having initiated consideration.

About it reports the edition of The Moscow Times. Russia has been responsible for breach of the Convention on 37 countries: 27 members of the European Union, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Albania, Northern Macedonia, Montenegro and Monaco.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia has filed a complaint on the basis of "unlawful unilateral restrictive measures of discriminatory in respect of the Russian Federation and its aircraft enterprises", introduced by these countries after the start of a full -scale invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.

Among the "violations" it is stated: the complaint states that actions against the Russian Air alflicitus "have jeopardized the safety of flights" and "seriously undermined mutual trust. " "The Russian Federation, as one of the leading aviation states, has a firm intention to terminate all these violations . . .

We expect that ICAO Council will effectively and impartially respond to the situation in the conditions of unprecedented large-scale ignoring the defendants of their international legal obligations," the statement reads. Russian Foreign Ministry. We will remind, in October 2022 Russia was thrown from the ICAO Council. The Russian Federation demanded a re -vote, but it was called "unprecedented" phenomenon and refused in the request.