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‘Sorry is not enough’: Bolivia demands EU find culprits behind aerial hijack
- ryguytilidie 13y agoIt's cool, I'm sure we'd accept a simple apology if Iran surrounded Air Force one with jets and forced it to land. Oh did I say simple apology? I meant missiles, lots of missiles.
- cafard 13y agoIs that what happened, then, or did various countries simply deny permission to fly over? Not that that wasn't pretty sorry. The nonsense of inspecting a president's plane is bad.
- ExpiredLink 13y agoMorales' jet was not searched. The Austrian president welcomed him: http://www.voanews.com/content/austria-did-not-search-morales-jet-in-vienna-president-says/1696669.html http://www.voanews.com/content/austria-did-not-search-morale...
- sentenza 13y agoPlease be aware that the Austrians are weird with regard to these things. AFAIK, Austria is the only country where the activities of intelligence agencies, including foreign ones, are by law legal as long as they don't run contrary to the interests of the Austrian state. The Austrians are very proud of the role they played as a spy-habitat during the cold war and many look back at this time with nostalgia. Anything that the Austrian president says in a context such as this might or might not be tongue-in-cheek.
- ExpiredLink 13y agoYou read too many of those spy novels.
- mtgx 13y agoWhat he should do now is get strong guarantees that this won't happen again, no matter what (maybe with a new EU resolution/law) - and then go and retrieve Snowden. What are the EU countries going to do? Humiliate themselves twice? At least then we'll know just how much of a vassal relationship they have with US.
- Mordor 13y agoFinding the culprits and extraditing them to Bolivia would be a strong guarantee ;-)
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- ChrisAntaki 13y agoThe plane grounding was very telling, in terms of global distribution & enactment of power.
- contingencies 13y agoguarantees that this won't happen again, no matter what - and then go and retrieve Snowden. Brilliant.
- 6d0debc071 13y agoI don't know why people insist on things they know they're not going to get, it makes them look weak. Perhaps this is related to bad publicity being a good thing if your product is otherwise unknown?
- sentenza 13y agoHow do you know that they won't get at least something more meaningful out of this? Spain especially is very dependent on good relations with South-American countries, since Spain has a kind of diplomatic "gateway to South-America" role within the EU.
- 6d0debc071 13y agoWell, if I become aware of them doing so, then I'll up my confidence in this method being more productive. But I can't, at least off hand, think of a time when this sort of approach has worked for a country that hasn't had fairly significant leverage.
- antr 13y agoBolivia lost all diplomatic credibility with Spain before this plane landing incident. The Bolivian government unilaterally nationalised subsidiaries of Spanish private companies without any explanation, in exchange for nothing. I really doubt Bolivia will get the apology they believe they deserve at the EU level.
- hetman 13y agoI don't know about weak. It makes the other party look rather hypocritical if they should ever complain about being treated in kind. This can be manipulated to sway public opinion and that can at times be a powerful thing.
- mcguire 13y agoPlus it will get them a considerable amount of goodwill from the rest of South America and the third world.
- superflit 13y agoOk.. We will send some 'Coca Cola' as apology. Get over or get your own aerial space...
- Mordor 13y agoWasn't it Yule Nonflie and Erik Searchenplanen?
- HPLovecraft 13y agothis hardly sounds like an "aerial hijack" http://audioboo.fm/boos/1482009-bolivia-air-force-fuerza-aerea-boliviana-fab001-flight-precaution-landing-vienna-austria http://audioboo.fm/boos/1482009-bolivia-air-force-fuerza-aer...
- thehme 13y agoThis sounds like a novela :)