ILibya ayikhange inike uphawu lokwala ukungena kubahambi abaninzi abavela eYurophu kunesiqhelo, inqwelomoya yaseJamani iLufthansa yatsho eFrankfurt njengoko umqolo waseSwitzerland-Libya usanda.
Ingxelo yale nkampani yeenqwelomoya iza emva kwengxelo yokuvalwa umlomo kwabemi be-EU ukuba bangene kwilizwe elikuMntla Afrika, njengoko usiya usiya usiya unyuka ungquzulwano phakathi kweLibya neSwitzerland.
Lo mqolo uqhagamshelwe kuluhlu olubikiweyo lwaseSwitzerland lwabemi baseLibya abali-188, kuquka inkokeli yaseLibya uMoamer Gaddafi kunye nosapho lwakhe, bebathintela ngokufanelekileyo ukuba bandwendwele naziphi na izizwe ezingama-25 zaseYurophu ezigutyungelwe sisivumelwano seSchengen.
Ubudlelwane phakathi kweSwitzerland neLibya buye bubi ukusukela ngoJulayi ka-2008, xa amapolisa aseGeneva athatha unyana kaGaddafi, uHannibal, kunye nenkosikazi yakhe ngemibuzo kulandela isikhalazo sokuba baxhaphaze abasebenzi basekhaya kwihotele yabo.
ILufthansa, engumnikazi wenkampani yeenqwelomoya yaseSwitzerland, ithe iyaqhubeka nenkonzo yayo yesiqhelo yabakhweli ukuya kwikomkhulu laseLibya iTripoli.
Inqwelomoya yangoMvulo isuka eFrankfurt isiya eTripoli ithwele abakhweli abangama-58 abane kubo banqatshelwe ukungena ngaphandle kwesizathu esicacileyo, kodwa ukwala kwabasemagunyeni bomda waseLibya ukuba bangenise abakhweli abathile kwakungeyonto ingaqhelekanga. Abo bala babuyela eJamani ngenqwelo-moya enye.
ILufthansa ithe bonke abanye abakhweli, uninzi lwabo olusuka kwi-European Union, bamkelwe eLibya.
Inqwelomoya yangoLwesibini iLufthansa bekumele ithwale abakhweli abangama-91 ukuya eTripoli.
Inkampani yeenqwelomoya iphawule kusuku emva kokuba iKhomishini yaseYurophu igxeke into ebibiza ngokuba "sisigqibo esingenacala kunye nesingenamkhethe ngabasemagunyeni baseLibya sokumisa ukuhanjiswa kwee-visa kubemi bamazwe e-EU Schengen."
AbaseSwitzerland abazange bakuqinisekise esidlangalaleni ukuvalwa. Nangona ingekho kwiManyano yaseYurophu, iSwitzerland iyinxalenye yendawo ye-Schengen yokuhamba ngokukhululekileyo, okuthetha ukuba imithetho yayo ye-visa isebenza kuwo wonke ummandla.
INTO ONOKUYITHATHA KWELI NQAKU:
- Ingxelo yale nkampani yeenqwelomoya iza emva kwengxelo yokuvalwa umlomo kwabemi be-EU ukuba bangene kwilizwe elikuMntla Afrika, njengoko usiya usiya usiya unyuka ungquzulwano phakathi kweLibya neSwitzerland.
- The airline commented a day after the European Commission deplored what it called “the unilateral and disproportionate decision by Libyan authorities to suspend the delivery of visas to EU Schengen countries’.
- A Monday flight from Frankfurt to Tripoli carried 58 passengers of whom four were denied entry for no obvious reason, but a refusal by Libyan border authorities to let in certain passengers was not unusual.
