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0 pointsthrow0101a5y ago0 comments

First Freedom of the Air: the right or privilege, in respect of scheduled international air services, granted by one State to another State or States to fly across its territory without landing (also known as a First Freedom Right).

* https://www.icao.int/pages/freedomsair.aspx

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air

Note that Belarus is not a signatory to the International Air Services Transit Agreement (IASTA):

* https://www.icao.int/secretariat/legal/list%20of%20parties/t...

Neither is Lithuania, but Greece is.

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d0ne5y ago

Accurate. Country of Origin is basis in this case which is Greece. Adequate response would be to indefinitely bar all Belarusian originating flights from traveling through any signatory's airspace.

However, this most likely only furthers the goals of the current Belarusian administration for the population there. Enforced strictly, to include diplomatic flights, it may cause measurable change.

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