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First Freedom of the Air: the right or privilege, in respect of scheduled international air services, granted by one State to another State or States to fly acr

First Freedom of the Air: the right or privilege, in respect of scheduled international air services, granted by one State to another State or States to fly across its territory without landing (also known as a First Freedom Right). * https://www.icao.int/pages/freedomsair.aspx https://www.icao.int/pages/freedomsair.aspx * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air Note that Belarus is not a signatory to the International Air Services Transit Agreement (IASTA): * https://www.icao.int/secretariat/legal/list%20of%20parties/transit_en.pdf https://www.icao.int/secretariat/legal/list%20of%20parties/t... Neither is Lithuania, but Greece is.

d0ne 5y ago
Accurate. Country of Origin is basis in this case which is Greece. Adequate response would be to indefinitely bar all Belarusian originating flights from traveling through any signatory's airspace. However, this most likely only furthers the goals of the current Belarusian administration for the population there. Enforced strictly, to include diplomatic flights, it may cause measurable change.