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Jun 03, 2021 (newstodate): The Belarus carrier Belavia is taking a hard blow from the flights bans by a growing number of countries following on the forced landing in Minsk on May 23 of a Ryanair aircraft on an inter-EU flight.
   The airline is now prohibited from operating into the airspace of 21 countries including Lithuania, Great Britain, France, Ukraine, Latvia, Finland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia, Poland, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, Cyprus, as well as to the Russian enclave at Kaliningrad as this would require flying through Lithuanian airspace.
   This leaves Belavia with flights so far only to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and the UAE.
   Stripped of the airline's normal revenue strings, Belarus will now appeal to the ICAO claiming that the ban on Belavia's movements violate the provisions of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944.