ICAO conducts dialogues on the discovery of a new route over the Black sea
International civil aviation organization (ICAO) conducts dialogues in order to open a new route for commercial Airliners over some areas of the Black sea, closed because of the conflict in Ukraine, said the NATO Secretary-General Raymond Benjamin in the conversation.
"We would like now to open a new path (air corridor). Ukraine has already made a certain number of proposals on this issue, We are currently looking into, " said Benjamin, in an interview to the Agency in the fields of the conference of safety in the headquarters of the ICAO in Montreal. According to the Secretary General, ICAO wishes to route ruled Ukraine without the "interference" of Russia.
The exact route of the new air corridor, which considers the ICAO Secretary General to voice wouldn't.
before Reuters informed citing unnamed sources, that the Russian and Ukrainian Commissioners as if the working agreement, which would again start flying commercial flights in the airspace above the waters of the Black and Azov seas. A source in the Russian delegation later said Last news that this information is untrue.
After the Crimea to the Russian Federation Ukrainian aviawest direct air carriers, which previously played a transit flights over the Crimea, in the crawl. Kiev also tried to make the EU ban of their flights to the EU. In early April, the European organization for safety of air navigation (EUROCONTROL) forbade European carriers flying to the Crimea, for example in airports Simferopol (code UKFF) and Sevastopol (UKFB). EUROCONTROL has decided to reject all proposals for flights in connection with the relevant recommendations of the Ukrainian authorities. The Ministry of transport of the Russian Federation noted that flights over the Crimea are not in conflict with the ICAO rules.