Iraqi Airways suspends flights to Minsk for a week
<p> MINSK, Aug 6 - PrimePress. The airline said in a statement that it was suspending flights to the Belarusian capital for one week starting with August 5. </p> <p> </p> <p> Early this week Ahmed Al-Sahhaf of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said that the country's embassy in Moscow was closely monitoring the situation around the murder of an Iraqi citizen on the border between Belarus and Lithuania and urged Iraqis not to become victims of illegal migration networks. </p> <p> </p> <p> Lithuania has recently announced that the number of apprehended illegal migrants at the border with Belarus is growing. Lithuanian authorities declared an extreme situation on 2 July. According to the latest figures, more than 4 thousand illegal migrants have been detained in Lithuania on the border with Belarus since the beginning of the year. For his part, the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, stated that because of Western sanctions he would no longer restrain the inflow illegal migrants to European Union countries. End </p>
2021-08-07
Primepress
Iraqi Airways suspends flights to Minsk for a week
MINSK, Aug 6 - PrimePress. The airline said in a statement that it was suspending flights to the Belarusian capital for one week starting with August 5.
Early this week Ahmed Al-Sahhaf of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said that the country's embassy in Moscow was closely monitoring the situation around the murder of an Iraqi citizen on the border between Belarus and Lithuania and urged Iraqis not to become victims of illegal migration networks.
Lithuania has recently announced that the number of apprehended illegal migrants at the border with Belarus is growing. Lithuanian authorities declared an extreme situation on 2 July. According to the latest figures, more than 4 thousand illegal migrants have been detained in Lithuania on the border with Belarus since the beginning of the year. For his part, the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, stated that because of Western sanctions he would no longer restrain the inflow illegal migrants to European Union countries. End