Qatar Complains to UNSC after UAE Violates Its Airspace for Second Time

Qatar in separate letters to the President of the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary General complained violation of its airspace by the United Arab Emirates’ planes for the second time in the past few days.


In a letter sent by Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Sheikha Alia Ahmed bin Saif al-Thani, he drew the attention of the UN Secretary General and the President of the Security Council to a UAE military airlift carrying induction code (DHC-6) coming from the UAE airspace bound for the Kingdom of Bahrain to enter the airspace of Qatar, at 10:10am, on Wednesday, January 3, 2018, flying over the country’s special economic zone, without prior authorization of the competent Qatari authorities, Qatar official News Agency reported.
 (Tasnim)