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Belarus is now calling for talks with the West and threatening retaliation

Talks with the West regarding the incident with the plane that caused outcry are now requested by the Belarus, warning that it will restrict imports as well as transit from the country in response to Western punitive measures, as reported by the Russian news agency RIA.

It was not immediately clear what kind of transit the threat involved, although Russian oil and gas is flowing through Belarus to Europe, as AMPE explains.

Comments from Belarus’s prime minister and foreign minister came amid growing international outcry over the forced landing of a Ryanair flight on Sunday in Minsk where the dissident blogger was arrested. Roman Protasevic.

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