BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
25/05/2006
Belarus to ban US, Canadian flights: spokesman
MINSK (Reuters) - Ex-Soviet Belarus, its leaders subject to a visa ban in the West, is to bar flights over its territory by U.S. and Canadian aircraft, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
The move, suggested by President Alexander Lukashenko this week, was in response to a refusal by both countries to allow an aircraft carrying Belarus's prime minister to refuel last month on its way to and from Cuba.
"Belarus strictly observes symmetry in adopting any sort of retaliatory measures," Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Popov told a news conference. "These restrictions will apply only to two countries -- the United States and Canada."
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