"The sharp tonality of my utterances
reflects my emotions over the inconveniences over what happened to the
passengers on our flight," Rogozin wrote in Facebook.
MOSCOW, July 29. /TASS/. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday the actions of the Romanian civil aviation authorities and the Moldovan government, which resulted in the disruption of his visit to Moldova, called for retaliatory measures.
"The
sharp tonality of my utterances reflects my emotions over the inconveniences
over what happened to the passengers on our flight," Rogozin wrote in
Facebook. "Most of them were returning home. I always traveled to Moldova
by regular flights of Russian airlines. The shameful stunt of the Romanians and
the Moldovan government requires careful analysis and precisely calculated
stinging countermeasures."
As reported
earlier, Dmitry Rogozin’s visit to Moldova was disrupted on Friday because of
Romanian air navigation service refusal to let a regular Moscow-Chisinau flight
of S7 airline through the Romanian airspace due to the presence of a ‘person
under sanctions’ aboard.
Rogozin is
one of the Russian officials, whom the EU blacklisted after Crimea’s
reunification with Russia and the unfolding of the armed civil conflict in
Eastern Ukraine.
On flights
between Moscow and Chisinau, Russian airlines use a long bypass route crossing
the territories of Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania after
Ukraine closed its airspace for them.
The S7 jet
had to make a landing in the Belarusian capital Minsk, where from he left for
Moscow by an Aeroflot flight.
Rogozin
said in connection with the incident that Western countries "will never
reconcile themselves" to Russia’s aspirations to being a free and strong
country. "They were quite content with the tipsy Russia of the 1990’s but
they will never reconcile themselves with our will to be free and strong."
"And
being the way we want to be, that is, free and strong would be the best
response to all these sanctions and dirty tricks," Rogozin indicated.
"And we’ll decide in the regular course of business how to knock the hell
out of those vile creatures."
He was
heading for Chisinau at a personal invitation from President Igor Dodon, whom
he planned to hold talks with.
A spokesman
for the Romanian Foreign Ministry confirmed to TASS the jet, aboard which
Rogozin was traveling to Chisinau, had been denied entry to the Romanian
airspace.
Source: ITAR-TASS 29-07-2017
