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MINSK, 13 June (BelTA) – An international meeting on meteorological services to civil aviation will be held in Minsk, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, jointly with the Transport and Communications Ministry, will welcome representatives of the World Meteorological Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization in Minsk. On 14-16 June the Belarusian capital will play host to a joint meeting of Working Group No.4 on Meteorological Services to Civil Aviation of the CIS Interstate Council for Hydrometeorology (WG-4) and the Project Team on Implementation of MET Service in Eastern part of the European region, including Central Asia (METG PT/EAST ICAO).

Participants of the meeting will discuss the measures to enhance the efficiency of meteorological services for flights with a view to improving its quality, unification and improvement of practices to provide meteorological services to aviation. Such meetings have become a tradition and are one of the ways to develop cooperation with the World Meteorological Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization. Attending the joint meeting will be representatives of meteorological services and civil aviation organizations of Austria, France, Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine.

“Ensuring the safe, frequent and efficient civil aviation is vital as it contributes to the strengthening of the public trust in aviation. Safe flights directly depend on reliable and high-quality meteorological information,” the ministry said.