If President of the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik chose the air corridor passing by Turkey, he would be in Yerevan now, Ruben Grdzelyan, Spokesperson of the Chief Civil Aviation Department of Armenia, told ArmInfo. He said Turkey refused to serve Dodik's charter flight. The president was to arrive in Yerevan at 5:00pm local time. Grdzelyan said it is not a violation of the international standards of civil aviation.
"There would be no problems, if he chose another air corridor passing by Turkey, which would be more expensive, indeed," Grdzelyan said. He is sure there would be no problems even if the president of the Republika Srpska chose a planned flight via Vienna, for instance.
President of the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik was to arrive in Armenia on April 22 to attend the Armenian Genocide Centennial events. However, his plane was not allowed to fly via Turkey, through the flight was previously coordinated with Ankara.
Milorad Dodik has already come out with a statement wherein he says that Ankara will not get its history to be revised by banning flights. "Everyone knows that 100 years ago a horrific crime was committed against the Armenian Christians and it were Turks who committed that crime," Dodik said.