MINSK. Aug 2 (Interfax) - Belarus's Defense and Foreign Ministries prepared and provided Poland with detailed flight data for the Belarusian and Polish aircraft that flew over a border area on August 1.
"Objective monitoring data has confirmed the absence of any reason whatsoever for accusing [Belarus] of infringing the state border," the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Belarusian helicopters flew at an altitude of 150-200 meters and the trajectory of their flights did not get nearer than 1,900 meters from the border. By contrast, a Polish Mi-2 helicopter that flew on the same day was 200 meters from the Belarusian border, which was confirmed by radar data, it said.
In accordance with an agreement signed by the two countries' defense ministries to share information on the aerial situation near the joint border and military aircraft flights in the Belarusian and Polish airspaces, Poland was duly informed of the planned helicopter flights, Minsk said.
"Staging any provocation in a situation like this one, where aircraft movements are clearly tracked by the adjoining side, is clearly illogical," the ministry said.
Also, during the flights the Belarusian Defense Ministry kept constantly in touch with an on-duty air traffic controller from an on-duty combat group of the Air Operations Center of the Polish Air Force Command, and Belarus has received no complaints, the ministry said.
Earlier, the Polish Foreign Ministry said it had summoned the Belarusian charge d'affaires ad interim over the violation of Polish airspace by Belarusian helicopters.