Commander of the General Staff of the Russian Air Forces Boris Cheltsov said that Georgia denied Russian long-range reconnaissance aircraft A-50 (NATO codename: Mainstay) to over fly Georgia as a part of the maneuvers of the air forces of the Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS) member countries, which was launched on April 5, RIA Novosti and Itar-Tass news agencies reported.
Boris Cheltsov said that two A-50 aircrafts will participate in the maneuvers. “One will conduct a flight over Belarus.
It was planned that another would have been used in the Armenian airspace; however, Georgia did not let it [the A-50 aircraft] through its airspace,” Commander of the General Staff of the Russian Air Forces stated.
Source: Civil Georgia via BakuToday, 05 April 2005
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