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  1. “Finally, during its forty-first session, held from 27 September to 7 October, the ICAO Assembly acknowledged that there was an infraction of the Chicago Convention by Belarus and adopted resolution A41-1, condemning the actions of the Government of the Republic of Belarus in committing an act of unlawful interference that deliberately endangered the safety and security of Ryanair Flight FR-4978 and the lives of those on board. I wish to thank His Excellency Ambassador Michel Xavier Biang, President of the Security Council, for inviting me today and for giving ICAO the opportunity to address the Security Council. I will be happy to answer any questions that representatives may have.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source

  2. “In the light of what I have reported here, the ICAO Council decided that the actions of the Government of Belarus referred to amounted to an infraction of the Chicago Convention, to be reported to the ICAO Assembly, and that the final report of the investigation team should be forwarded to the Secretary-General for information and any appropriate further action. The report was duly forwarded to the Secretary-General on 12 August.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source

  3. “The additional information and materials gathered helped to fill in some of the remaining gaps and led to the conclusion that Belarus senior officials orchestrated the deliberate diversion of the flight under the false pretext of a bomb threat. The final report of the investigation team was considered by the Council on 18 July. The actions of the State of Belarus amounted to the use of civil aviation for a purpose inconsistent with the purposes of the Chicago Convention, which is a contravention of its article 4.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source

  4. “Subsequently, with the assistance of the authorities of the United States, the investigation team gained access to interview the controller, whose testimony materially contradicts the information and materials provided by the authorities of Belarus about the events of 23 May 2021, including with regard to the email as the origin of the bomb threat information, and reflects the involvement of an unidentified individual who had been given access to the Minsk Area Control Centre. The investigation team had access to the audio recordings made by the air traffic controller during the event and their transcripts, which supported his statements with verified material evidence. The audio recordings were compared to those already in the possession of the investigation team, as detailed in Appendix I of the investigation report.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source

  5. “Prior to the issuance of the report in January, the investigation team was not able to meet with, or interview, the controller of the Minsk Area Control Centre who was assigned to the Ryanair flight. The authorities of Belarus informed the team that that individual had not reported for duty after his summer leave and that they had no information as to his whereabouts and no way to contact him.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source

  6. “Moreover, no cellular phone records of the personnel involved, documenting the time and duration of the calls and person or entity contacted, were made available by Belarus to support the alleged sequence of events related to the transmission of the information regarding the bomb threat from Minsk National Airport personnel to the Minsk Area Control Centre. The investigation report was first submitted to the Security Council in January. As there were some gaps and missing information, the report was not able to identify responsibilities at that stage. In view of new developments made public by two States around the same period, the Council decided that the investigation should continue.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source

  7. “According to the authorities of Belarus, a first email was received at 9.25 a.m. Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), followed by a second email at 9.56 a.m. UTC, both containing identical information about the bomb threat. Meanwhile, information obtained from the email service provider shows that only the second email was sent to Minsk National Airport, at 9.56 a.m. UTC, that is, 26 minutes after the information was communicated by the controller to the pilots. The investigation team could not verify that Belarus received the threat email at 9.25 a.m. UTC that allegedly triggered the actions by the authorities, as they did not provide logs of the email server or the email files in their original format, including their metadata, citing their erasure in accordance with their data retention policy.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source

  8. “With the support and cooperation of many States connected to the event, the team gathered a considerable amount of information and materials, and it had the opportunity to travel to various States to conduct interviews of relevant actors and witnesses despite the coronavirus disease-related constraints. The investigation established that, after entering Belarusian airspace, the pilots were informed by the controller of the Minsk Area Control Centre of a bomb threat on board and of the fact that the bomb would explode over Vilnius. The pilots were invited to divert to land in Minsk, and they were deliberately left with no other option. Despite their multiple requests to be put in contact with their operations centre in order to coordinate a decision, no attempt was made by the Minsk Area Control Centre to do that.”

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  9. “I wish to clarify here that this investigation does not fall within the scope of the Chicago Convention’s Annex 13 — Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation. Aircraft accidents or incidents fall under State responsibility. Pursuant to the foregoing decision of the Council, on 3 June 2021 the Secretary-General instituted a Fact-Finding Investigation Team composed of seven staff members specializing in air traffic control, operational safety, international air law and aviation security and led by the Deputy Director for Aviation Security and Facilitation of the Air Transport Bureau, who is here with me today.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source

  10. “On 27 May 2021, the ICAO Council decided to undertake a fact-finding investigation of the event acting under sub-paragraph (e) of article 55 of the Chicago Convention, which states that the Council may: “[i]nvestigate, at the request of any contracting State, any situation which may appear to present avoidable obstacles to the development of international air navigation; and, after such investigation, issue such reports as may appear to it desirable.” The Council requested that the ICAO secretariat prepare a report that would present the available facts and relevant legal instruments and identify any gaps in order to safeguard international civil aviation and called upon States to collaborate with the investigation.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source

  11. “As I was invited to today’s Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security in order to provide a briefing on the forced landing of Ryanair Flight FR-4978 by Belarus, allow me to outline what happened and how ICAO addressed the issue. On 23 May 2021, Ryanair Flight FR-4978, travelling from Athens to Vilnius, was diverted over Belarus airspace and landed at Minsk National Airport. The diversion was triggered by information provided by the Belarusian air traffic controller of a bomb threat on board the aircraft. That event immediately raised doubts and concerns among several ICAO member States, which called for ICAO’s action, particularly as two passengers were detained after landing in Minsk.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source

  12. “Mr. Sciacchitano: It is my pleasure to address the Security Council on behalf of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations specialized agency for civil aviation, established by the Convention on International Civil Aviation, adopted in Chicago in 1944. As mandated by the Chicago Convention, ICAO works with its 193 member States and the civil aviation industry to adopt standards and recommended practices and foster consensus on policies and global plans to enhance the safety, security and sustainability of international aviation. ICAO also coordinates and facilitates assistance and capacity-building for States and conducts audits of their oversight performance in the areas of aviation safety and security.”

    2022-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9175 (2022) · source