President Alexander Lukashenko dismisses international outcry over incident in his first public statement since diverting a Ryanair flight to arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.
Transcript details a conversation between one of Belarusian Transport Ministry's air traffic controllers and a Ryanair pilot forced to land in Belarus due to what turned out to be a hoax bomb alert.
A Ryanair passenger flight from Athens to Vilnius was diverted while in Belarusian airspace on Sunday over a supposed bomb threat, prompting a global outcry to Minsk's forced landing of the aircraft to arrest a dissident journalist.
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