MONTREAL: Russia didn’t safe sufficient help on Saturday (Sep 27) to be re-elected to the United Nations aviation company’s governing council, in the latest rebuke over its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow acquired 87 votes, falling wanting the 93 wanted to regain a seat on the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group’s (ICAO) 36-member council through the company’s meeting in Montreal. The assembly runs by Oct 3.
Russia misplaced its council seat in 2022, when members eliminated it from the group of states deemed of “chief significance in air transport” following its invasion of Ukraine.
A Russian delegate instantly known as for a repeat spherical of voting, which the meeting rejected.
RUSSIA SAYS MOVE HARMS ICAO
Russia’s transport ministry mentioned its exclusion “damages the authority and effectiveness of the group”.
The ICAO ought to function “on the premise of broad worldwide consensus, not slim political pursuits”, the ministry mentioned, including that Moscow had acquired rising backing from the BRICS grouping and international locations in Africa, the Center East and Southeast Asia.
The ICAO units world civil aviation security requirements, with the council taking part in a key function in that course of.
