روسيا تبلغ لبنان عن مناورة بحرية في المتوسط وتعديلات على المسار الجوي للطائرات
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أبلغت روسيا السلطات اللبنانية انها في صدد إجراء مناورات بحرية لمدة ثلاثة أيام من شأنها أن تؤثر على حركة الطيران من والى مطار بيروت، الأمر الذي استدعى تعديلات على المسار الجوي لحركة الطائرات التي ستقلع من لبنان.
وقالت الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام ان "السلطات المختصة في المطار تلقت اليوم برقية من البحرية الروسية تفيد بأن البحرية الروسية في صدد إجراء تمارين ومناورات بحرية بموجب احداثيات محددة، وذلك لمدة ثلاثة ايام، ابتداء من منتصف هذه الليلة".
وجاء في البرقية أن "ذلك من شأنه ان يؤثر بشكل مباشر على المجال الجوي اللبناني وعلى حركة الطيران من والى مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي في بيروت وفي الاجواء اللبنانية ما يؤدي الى تعليق الحركة الجوية بشكل شبه كامل".
ولبنان الآن وفقا للوكالة الوطنية، في صدد اجراء مفاوضات مع السلطات القبرصية المختصة لتأمين خط جوي موقت، علما أنه إذا وافقت السلطات القبرصية على هذا الامر، فان معظم شركات الطيران ستعتذر عن تسيير رحلاتها الجوية من والى لبنان أيضا بسبب بعد المسافة ولاسباب لوجستية اخرى تتعلق بحركة الطيران.
وقال وزير الاشغال العامة والنقل غازي زعيتر لوكالة "فرانس برس" "طلبت روسيا من السلطات اللبنانية الا تحلق الطائرات المنطلقة من مطار بيروت نحو الغرب فوق منطقة محددة في المياه الاقليمية في البحر الابيض المتوسط بسبب المناورات البحرية التي تجريها روسيا في 21 و22 و23 من الشهر الحالي".
واشار زعيتر الى ان "لبنان تحفظ على الطلب الروسي لان من شأنه ان يؤثر على سير الرحلات".
وتنفذ روسيا ضربات جوية في سوريا منذ 30 ايلول تقول انها تستهدف تنظيم الدولة الاسلامية و"مجموعات ارهابية" اخرى، وتساند الجيش السوري في عملياته البرية في محافظات عدة في البلاد.
وبعد البلبلة التي أثارها الطلب الروسي، أعلنت شركة طيران الشرق الأوسط - "الميدل إيست" انه "استنادا إلى التعميم الصادر عن إدارة الطيران المدني اللبناني في شأن سلوك مسار جوي جديد بين لبنان وقبرص، فإن كل رحلاتها ليوم غد السبت ستقلع في المواعيد المحددة لها كالمعتاد".
وأوضحت أيضا أن "بعض الرحلات الجوية المتوجهة إلى دول الخليج العربي والشرق الأوسط سوف تستغرق وقتا أطول، بسبب سلوكها مسارات جوية جديدة".
وتعليقا على ذلك، قال رئيس الحزب التقدمي الاشتتراكي النائب وليد جنبلاط عبر حسابه على تويتر "الروس أبلغونا اقفال أجوائنا لـ3 أيام، فهل وزير الخارجية والمغتربين جبران باسيل، على علم بهذا الامر؟".
اضاف: "اننا لا نريد ان نصبح حيا من موسكو، وهناك حد أدنى من احترام السيادة اللبنانية".

amazing comment as usual. thank you for being you southern, please never change.

Zoaiter said Beirut had "reservations about the Russian request and was studying it." Why is that exactly Zoaiter? Please enlighten us why an Implant has any say over Russia?

And the height of the tourist season.Now who will pay for all those booked hotels? One more thing, didn't Putin drop a Jetliner in the Ukraine? I would consider calling in the President to demand an end to this. OOOOps.

in your mind, every day of the year is the height of the tourist season. Were your friends that killed dozens of innocent people in Beirut last week concerned about the impact on Lebanese tourism.

If anyone hasn't noticed, Russias direct entry into Syria has meant closer alliance between Lebanon and Russia. This is a positive consequence of Russia's involvement. The Saudis and Israelis can go suck on it. Of course Lebanon will divert air traffic for the next few days, we stand to gain equally with Russia.

you know what is strange @cityboy.... I was thinking the same thing exactly, the same!!!! The similarities between us are not just coincidences anymore. I mean we are both shiaa extremists who pretend to be secular and we both are members of the shia resistance, both paid to post, both are sectarian to the bone, both troll and make up accounts to insult people and then pretend we are against such practices.... I hope just because we are similar in all the above ways people don't think we are the same poster.

how can people pretending to defend lebanese sovereignty accept an ORDER from russia.... no negociation possible. do as we say or planes may be downed... pityful.

"naval exercises and drills according to specific coordinates as of midnight.” "
request is the diplomatic term for order here... but it does not seem to bother you that lebanese airspace could be disrupted to satisfy russian demands... then what else will they demand?

"try request, not order."
How you people always find justification to things that cannot be justified! Do you think Lebanon can say NO to this request?

poor southern... they can train elsewhere without impacting lebanese economy! but you do not care about lebanese interests...
all you care about is hezbollaland, not Lebanon.
oh! and i notice once more your idiotic binary stance as usual... all those against hezbis or their allies are pro terrorists... who is the fool here? you! with this basic stupid way of thinking.
and russia is allied to europe, those you hate for being against hezbis!! forgot that? LOL

we know you M8ers and hezbis lovers are the only ones delivering certificates of patriotism... when one is not on your side you call him zionist or takfiri now. (you d better choose which one btw LOL!)
we know the song. the song of those who lack arguments and brains....

This is not a request it is an order. You don't request from a government to close its airspace a few hours before you impose a deadline.

stop meddling israel in each of your posts when it is not the subject... we are talking about russia imposing its demands on a sovereign country. you cry when israel violates lebanese sovereignty but are happy when russia violates it... double standards as usual... i on the contrary am against all violations of lebanese sovereignty unlike you idiot.
but then again Lebanon means NOTHING to hezbis....

we know you M8ers and hezbis lovers are the only ones delivering certificates of patriotism... when one is not on your side you call him zionist or takfiri now. (you d better choose which one btw LOL!)
we know the song. the song of those who lack arguments and brains....

how can he be outraged? he didn't even think of that, as he cannot think...he lets hezbollah think for him.

well read my posts... you will see that i am as much against israel than bashar and your hezbollah... all enemies to Lebanon.
but M8ers have a selective memory.. they read what they want to read....

seems you are in love with him.... then tell us where are your boyfriend's counter arguments to say russia has this right? all there is is just insults to all the posts that are against your hezbi pimps....

oh! and the posts of others are none of my concern. i answered your boyfriend because he just insulted me. if he hadn't i wouldn't have said a thing but let him ease off his frustration along with the others who also insult...
but insult me i would answer back. that is all.

thirteen, you really think that the over priced hotels in lebanon will be outraged if they lost a booking for the weekend. lol

good thing you are blind southern... russia is in syria also to counter the influence iran is taking there with your hezbi friends. they want to be the ones to dictate their rules not the rules of iran. but you do not see that.... yet. LOL

Russia who is Israel's ally is now hezbollah's friend! But Hezbollah sill cares about palestine...

very bigjohn, read this "request"
"أمر عمليات" روسي طار فوق الدولة! لبنان يرفض حظر الملاحة ويُعدّل المسارات
http://newspaper.annahar.com/article/286388-أمر-عمليات-روسي-طار-فوق-الدولة-لبنان-يرفض-حظر-الملاحة-ويعدل-المسارات?id=286388

why did the aoun and hezbollah miqati government agree and submit to the american orders?

I'm sorry but I don't see the problem.
Flights to and from Beirut to the Gulf States, flew west over the Med, then south and cross Sinai before overflying Saudi Arabia, instead of the more direct route over Syria and Jordan or Iraq, because of the situation in Syria, and they have been doing this for years. No airlines have cancelled their flights, no passengers have not reached their destination, no hotel bookings have had to be cancelled.
Then they stopped flying over Sinai and take a longer route over Egypt, no one was affected by the extra hour flight.
So why can't they just fly a new route over the Med for a few days?

i wonder what Israel would do if it was ordered by Russia to do the same.
" No airlines have cancelled their flights, no passengers have not reached their destination, no hotel bookings have had to be cancelled. "
12 minutes ago LBCI: Kuwait Airlines canceled two flights that were scheduled to land in Beirut today.

@lebcad: you seem very educated and well informed. Are you a shia ?

the 'Canadian' says "Stop crying and go read", yet he spells "blame" as "blaim" ;)

excellent feedback thank you. It seems you are not a shia but as educated as a shia. Do you also celebrate ashoura?

Big surprise.....
Lebcad = another Pro-Iranian, anti-Sunni, secular houthista "Christian".

I bet as a Christian you deal with a lot of iranian shias where you live and you concluded they are a great people. Is Canada better than Dahyeh? Do you have a Canadian passport? You must be lucky coz you live in Canada and deal with iranians. I also noticed almost invariably all Christians on naharnet love shias and speak highly of iranians. You are no different.