Belgian police officers patrol as a plane lands at Zaventem global airport near Brussels, Belgium.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully and UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson say it means all countries will need to raise screening standards, although Mr McCully did not know if it would mean practical changes at New Zealand airports.
“This is the first U.N. Security Council resolution ever to focus on the threats by terrorists to civil aviation and it demonstrates our joint resolve to protect our citizens from an escalating danger”.
Swiss police officers conduct checks on passengers at the entrance of the Cointrin airport in Geneva, Switzerland.
In the run-up to the vote, Secretary General Fang Liu, of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), told the council that more than 100,000 flights take off daily, carrying 10 million travelers.
Despite those already massive numbers Liu warned that “the worldwide air transport network will double its volume of flights and passengers by 2030” making the protection of civilian air travel – from “acts of unlawful interference” – one of ICAO’s highest priorities.
Members of the United Nations Security Council vote to adopt a resolution regarding the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty during a meeting at U.N. headquarters, Friday, Sept. 23, 2016.
“New Zealand will support the ICAO Global Measure Resolution and participate from Phase I, which commences in 2021, provided other developed countries and the majority of major aviation states also agree to do so”. They include small weapons carried by passengers, homemade bombs concealed in baggage and cargo, shoulder-fired ground-to-air missiles, security on the ground, cybersecurity, drones and insider threats. A third attack was thwarted by passengers who all died when the plane crashed in Pennsylvania.
The 15-member body recognizes the vital importance of the global aviation system to economic development and prosperity, and of all Slates strengthening aviation security measures to secure a stable and peaceful global environment, and.ihrther recognizing that secure air services in this regard enhance transportation, connectivity, trade, political and cultural links between States, and that public confidence in the security of air transport is vital. “And this awful atrocity is a potent reminder of the gravity of threat to the civil aviation”, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.
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U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin of Russian Federation said Moscow hoped the next president of the United States would be “more strident in his desire to ratify it”.
