Iraq has decided to suspend all passenger flights to Belarus, the country’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement on Saturday, APA reports citing TASS.
“Based on government decrees, the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority has announced the suspension of all flights from Iraq to Minsk (Belarus), operated by Iraqi Airways and all other national air carriers,” the statement reads.
The Iraqi Airways company said earlier that its flights to Belarus, which, according to the European Union, are used for the transfer of illegal migrants from the Middle East to Lithuania via Belarus, would remain suspended until August 15.
