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TURKISH PROF: GROUNDING OF ARMENIAN PLANE LEGAL BUT HOSTILE ACT
hetq
16:13, October 17, 2012
Assistant Prof. Volkan Gunel, an expert on international law from
Istanbul's Ozyegin University, has stated that the forced grounding of
an Air Armenian passenger plane en route to Syria on October 15 may be
legal from an international law perspective, but that it still
constitutes a "hostile act".
"There are no examples of such conduct in practice. Civilian planes do
not get 'pulled over' like this. The Convention on International Civil
Aviation has very strict rules. [Forcing] a plane to land is a hostile
act that is extremely inimical to [established] practice," Assist.
Prof. Gunel said, adding that interrupting with the flow of civilian
aviation would also have negative repercussions for a country in the
long term as well.
Bound for Aleppo, the plane took off from Armenia at 11:30 and bore a
cargo of some 1,500 plastic bottles of sunflower seed oil, 1,500
plastic bottles of vegetable oil, 3,000 boxes of jam, 1,500 boxes of
peas, 1,500 boxes of caviar, 1,500 packages of rice, 1,500 kilograms
of sugar, 3,000 kilograms of cereals and 1,500 kilograms of pasta,
this according to a Bianet new item.
hetq
16:13, October 17, 2012
Assistant Prof. Volkan Gunel, an expert on international law from
Istanbul's Ozyegin University, has stated that the forced grounding of
an Air Armenian passenger plane en route to Syria on October 15 may be
legal from an international law perspective, but that it still
constitutes a "hostile act".
"There are no examples of such conduct in practice. Civilian planes do
not get 'pulled over' like this. The Convention on International Civil
Aviation has very strict rules. [Forcing] a plane to land is a hostile
act that is extremely inimical to [established] practice," Assist.
Prof. Gunel said, adding that interrupting with the flow of civilian
aviation would also have negative repercussions for a country in the
long term as well.
Bound for Aleppo, the plane took off from Armenia at 11:30 and bore a
cargo of some 1,500 plastic bottles of sunflower seed oil, 1,500
plastic bottles of vegetable oil, 3,000 boxes of jam, 1,500 boxes of
peas, 1,500 boxes of caviar, 1,500 packages of rice, 1,500 kilograms
of sugar, 3,000 kilograms of cereals and 1,500 kilograms of pasta,
this according to a Bianet new item.