A number of members of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in their statement expressed concern about the gaps in the information provided by Belarus regarding the Ryanair flight, which was Roman Protasevich.

On 31 January, the Member States of the ICAO Council considered the report of the ICAO Secretariat on the investigation into the events related to the diversion of the Ryanair flight dated 23 May last year. The discussions also included officials from non-Council states that "have a special interest in the proceedings", namely Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Ireland.

“The Council expressed concern about the gaps in the information provided by Belarus and the inconsistencies contained in the evidence available at the time of the investigation regarding critical aspects of the actual reconstruction of the events, and emphasized that the bomb threat against flight FR4978 was patently false,” comes from the statement.

The organization did not specify which states had expressed concern about the inconsistencies.

On May 23, at the request of the Belarusian authorities, an aircraft of the Irish airline Ryanair, en route from Athens to Vilnius, made an emergency landing in Minsk. The founder of the NEXTA Telegram channel, Roman Protasevich, who was on board the aircraft, was detained by law enforcement agencies. His girlfriend, Russian Sofia Sapega, was also detained.

On January 18, ICAO announced that it had completed an investigation into the circumstances of the Ryanair emergency landing and provided a report on it to all members of the organization. The document said that the plane was landed in Minsk on the basis of “deliberately false” information about mining.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called the incident a planned provocation to "strangle" the republic.

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