The ICAO Council published a report on the incident with the forced landing of the Ryanair flight FR4978 in the Belarusian airspace and condemned the government of Belarus for committing an act of unlawful interference.
The ICAO Council acknowledged that the bomb threat against Ryanair Flight FR4978 was deliberately false and endangered its safety, and furthermore that the threat was communicated to the flight crew upon the instructions of senior government officials of Belarus.
The Council has directed ICAO to convey the FR4978 report findings to all ICAO member states, to report the infractions of the Chicago Convention by Belarus to the next ICAO Assembly, and to make the report publicly available.
At the same time, Russian representative expressed his state’s strong objection to identifying Belarus as the source of the unlawful interference.
