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Airports Council Int'l Offers Russia to Cancel Entry Passengers Screening

© AFP 2023 / BENOIT DOPPAGNE / BelgaA picture taken on March 29, 2016 in Zaventem shows tents at Brussels Airport, where authorities are running a series of tests to see if makeshift check-in facilities are good enough to restart some flights and that repair work and new security measures are adequate after the deadly March 22 attacks
A picture taken on March 29, 2016 in Zaventem shows tents at Brussels Airport, where authorities are running a series of tests to see if makeshift check-in facilities are good enough to restart some flights and that repair work and new security measures are adequate after the deadly March 22 attacks - Sputnik International
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Airports Council International (ACI) Europe has offered Russia not to screen passengers at the airports' entrance, the ACI director general said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Airports Council International (ACI) Europe, a professional association of airport operators, has offered Russia to cancel the screening of passengers at the airports' entrance, the ACI director general said.

"These checks are potentially creating new security vulnerabilities. In particular, the screening on entry to airport terminals is counterproductive from a counter-terrorism perspective. The crowd (which can be large at peak times) presents an ideal target for those with bad intent," Olivier Jankovec said in a letter seen by RIA Novosti on Wednesday and sent to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on April 29.

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The letter provided an example of the Ben Gurion airport in Israel's Tel Aviv. It is believed to be one of the safest in the world, but passengers there are not inspected at the entrance, as the authorities are using intelligence information, license plate recognition, video surveillance cameras and modern communication facilities, among other means.

On March 22, a series of blasts hit Brussels Airport and a metro station located near the EU institutions in the center of the city, killing 35 people. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Following the Brussels attacks, head of Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Neradko said that the agency was expecting the decision of the European Union authorities to strengthen security measures that may affect the activities of the Russian airlines flying to Brussels and the European Union.

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