Armenia to allow civil aircrafts to fly to Azerbaijan’s occupied territory

General Department of Civil Aviation of Armenia (GDCA) will allow civil aircrafts to fly to the occupied territory of Azerbaijan, GDCA's chief Artyom Movsisyan told journalists, Novosti-Armenia reported.

He refused to disclose concrete dates.

According to Movsisyan, flights will be served by 19-seat Armenian planes. The flight duration will be 45 - 50 minutes.

The commissioning of the airport in Khankendi is an open violation of the Convention on International Civil Aviation.

Azerbaijan banned the use of airspace over Armenia occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, as no one can guarantee a safe air corridor in the area, the head of the Azerbaijani Civil Aviation Administration, Arif Mammadov said earlier.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the European Civil Aviation Conference (ICAC) also supported the position of Azerbaijan on this issue.