BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
25/05/2006
Slighted Belarus bans Canada
MINSK, Belarus (AP) ? Belarus will bar overflights by U.S. and Canadian airlines, after both countries refused to allow refuelling stops by Belarus' premier during a visit to Cuba last month, a government official said Thursday.
The decision was taken by President Alexander Lukashenko ``strictly in adherence to the principles of symmetry," Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Popov said.
During a trip to and from Cuba last month, both the United States and Canada refused to allow Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky's plane permission to refuel ? a decision derided on Tuesday by Lukashenko in an address before parliament as "complete savagery."
It was unclear how many flights could be affected. Most direct flights from North America to Russia, for example, fly to the north of Belarus.
Nor was it clear if the ban affected both commercial and government flights.
Phone calls to Popov seeking clarification went unanswered.
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