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A light board at Minsk National Airport showed that flight IF623 from Baghdad had been canceled. The ocean liner Fly Baghdad Boeing 737-800 was scheduled to fly to the Belarusian capital at 11 am 25 min. local time.
Earlier Thursday, the Iraqi Airways flight from the southern Iraqi city of Basra to Minsk was canceled. The plane was supposed to take off at 8 pm 15 minutes. local time and landing in Minsk at 1 pm local time.
“According to a representative of Iraqi Airways in Minsk, the Basra-Minsk-Basra flight has been canceled by decision of the airline,” said the Minsk airport press service.
At that time, another Fly Baghdad plane successfully flew to Minsk on Thursday morning and arrived in the Belarusian capital at 1 pm 25 minutes.
EU Ambassador to Iraq Martin Huth told BNS on Wednesday that Iraqi Airways flights to Minsk should be canceled for ten days.
The EU has recently been involved in talks with Baghdad to return Iraqis who have illegally crossed the Belarusian-Lithuanian border to their home countries and to persuade Iraq to reduce flights to Minsk.
According to the Minsk airport and Iraqi Airways websites, Iraqi airlines planned to operate passenger flights not only from Baghdad, but also from three other cities: Basra, Arbil and Suleimania.
This year, more than 4,000 people crossed the border from Belarus into Lithuania. illegal migrants. Most of them are Iraqis.
Lithuania has declared an emergency situation due to the increase in illegal immigration. The country’s officials take the position that the increase in migratory flows is an organized action of the Minsk regime against Lithuania.
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