Due to the strike of air traffic controllers state Secretary of the USA John Kerry had to travel from Brussels to Paris by train, said at a press conference, Commissioner of the state Department Marie Harf.
" Tomorrow in Paris, where the Secretary of state now goes by train because of the strike in Brussels, he will meet with the Ministers of foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Jordan, to tell them about the results of his visit to Iraq to discuss the deteriorating situation in this country, " said Harf. In her expression, in Brussels Kerry participated in the Ministerial meeting of the NATO, for example, met with the new head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, RIA " Novosti ". Brussels international airport on Wednesday cancelled a number of flights due to a strike of air traffic controllers. On Tuesday at airports in France the number of performed flights was reduced by 20%. In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday at least 200 passengers were trapped in the Paris-Orly airport, as could not fly from the capital of the Fifth Republic in Spain and Portugal. On Wednesday morning a few hundred passengers have found that their flights cancelled or caught. One of the minority trade Union of air traffic controllers tried to convince its members to oppose the restructuring of industry and reduce its payment in the period from 2015 to 2019. Air traffic controllers are afraid that these changes have an opportunity to decrease the level of their salaries. Proposed government measures agreed with the plans of the European Commission, seeking to divide European airspace into functional blocks in accordance with existing traffic flows, to disregard national borders. Yesterday strikes General Directorate of civil aviation (DGAC) of France addressed the airlines with a petition in connection with the strike in advance by 20% to reduce the number of planned flights from airports in the South of the country where the position of the strikers stronger (Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux), and from Paris to the South directions. In the beginning it was planned that the strike will last till the end of the week, however, the Union announced it stop.

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