“If our Russian colleagues agree to such inspections at a Bulgarian airport they will be allowed to move on,” the local news agency Focus quoted the minister as saying.
Bulgaria refused Russian aircraft permission to cross its airspace on Tuesday, amid Western fears that Moscow was ramping up its military support to Syria.
Bulgaria's decision to deny its airspace to Russian aid flights to Syria comes after a similar request was allegedly made by the United States to Greece.
A diplomatic source in Athens told RIA Novosti last week that Washington had asked Greece to prohibit Russian aircraft from using its airspace for aid deliveries to Syria, however, Athens refused to do so.
(Sputnik)
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Moscow Tuesday demanded answers from ???Greece??? and Bulgaria after Sofia banned Russian supply flights to Syria from its airspace and Athens said it had been asked by Washington to do the same....
Moscow is waiting for explanations from Sofia following the closure of the Bulgarian airspace for Russian transport planes carrying humanitarian aid to war-torn Syria, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday...
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Bulgaria has denied a Russian request to use its airspace for supply flights to Syria due to serious concerns about the cargo on the planes, the Bulgarian foreign ministry's spokeswoman said on Tuesday...
- According to a Greek government spokesperson, Russia no longer needs access to the Greek airspace to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria, Reuters reported...
Bulgarien hat die Sperrung seines Luftraumes für russische Hilfsflüge nach Syrien auf Druck der USA beschlossen, wie Franz Klinzewitsch, Mitglied des russischen Duma-Ausschusses für Verteidigung, in einem Journalistengespräch äußerte....
ReplyDeleteZuvor hatte das bulgarische Außenministerium den Antrag Russlands auf Überflugerlaubnis für Frachten nach Syrien abgelehnt. Die Flugsperre ist vom 01. bis zum 24. September gültig............http://sptnkne.ws/GZS
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