{"id":416878,"date":"2021-05-26T09:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416878"},"modified":"2021-05-26T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T04:39:08","slug":"belarus-faces-sanctions-threat-over-state-piracy-some-airlines-avoid-its-air-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/belarus-faces-sanctions-threat-over-state-piracy-some-airlines-avoid-its-air-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus faces sanctions threat over &#8216;state piracy&#8217;, some airlines avoid its air space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV\/BRUSSELS : Several airlines said on Monday they would avoid Belarusian air space after Belarus scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair jetliner and arrest a dissident journalist in an act denounced by Western powers as &#8220;state piracy&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The European Union was considering responding to Sunday&#8217;s incident by limiting international air traffic over Belarus and restricting its ground transport, and could tighten sanctions already in place on the former Soviet republic. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was effectively aviation piracy, state sponsored,&#8221; said Ireland&#8217;s Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, using language that was echoed by a number of other countries as EU leaders prepared to discuss a response at a summit in Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV\/BRUSSELS : Several airlines said on Monday they would avoid Belarusian air space after Belarus scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair jetliner and arrest a dissident journalist in an act denounced by Western powers as &#8220;state piracy&#8221;. The European Union was considering responding to Sunday&#8217;s incident by limiting international air traffic over Belarus and restricting its ground transport, and could tighten sanctions already in place on the former Soviet republic. &#8220;This was effectively aviation piracy, state sponsored,&#8221; said Ireland&#8217;s Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, using language that was echoed by a number of other countries as EU leaders prepared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}