>Mailing-List: ListBot mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG > >http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/newsphp3?=135475 > > > YUGOSLAVIA NEWS > >Yugoslavia Says NATO Planes Violated Its Airspace > >BELGRADE, Feb 17, 2000 -- (Reuters) Yugoslavia accused >NATO on Wednesday of violating its airspace twice this >month, prompting it to temporarily close a Montenegrin >airport. > >Yugoslav Transport Minister Dejan Drobnjakovic said >alliance planes had been spotted on February 10 and >February 14. > >Yugoslav flight control closed the Tivat airport in >southern Montenegro on Monday, the day of the second >sighting, out of concern about safety. Montenegro and >Serbia together form Yugoslavia. > >The airport was reopened on Wednesday, Drobnjakovic >told a news conference. > >"On February 10, a pilot of Adria Airways flying from >Ljubljana to Tirana reported a presence of another >aircraft at a height of 8,200 metres in the zone of >Budva, Montenegro. That was NATO's plane. It was a >classic near-miss," he said. > >"That was a flagrant violation of regulations and of >Yugoslavia's territory, endangering the safety of >Montenegro." > >"On February 14, a pilot of Cyprus Airlines, flying >from London to Larnaca reported a presence of several >unknown aircraft around the point KONU, covering the >area between Dubrovnik (in Croatia) and Herceg Novi >(in Montenegro)." > >Drobnjakovic said Croatian flight control had >confirmed the aircraft reported were NATO planes. > >He said the decision to reopen the airport was based >on a response from the International Civil Aviation >Organization (ICAO), which he said had contacted NATO >on the issue. > >Montenegrin state radio reported on Tuesday that >Yugoslav flight control had closed the airport after >NATO asked it to do so because of planned exercises. > >A NATO spokesman in Brussels denied on Tuesday that >any such exercises were being held in the region. > >A Yugoslav flight control official said the airport >had been closed because of NATO activity, but added >that the alliance had not informed Belgrade about its >plans. > >"According to civil aviation rules, NATO was obliged >to report its activities 48 hours before their start >in the form of a NOTAM - notification to airman. They >never sent a NOTAM," flight control director Miodrag >Hadzic told Reuters. > >He said the civilian planes that had reported the >incidents had the evidence recorded on a tape. > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >______________________________________________________________________ >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
