ICAO

ICAO

Subject : International Organisations

Context : International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) will hold an urgent meeting in Montreal, Canada, on May 27 to discuss the forcibly diversion of the Ryanair plane, which was flying from Greece to Lithuania, to land in Belarus on May 23 after Western powers called for the UN civil aviation agency to investigate the incident.

Concept :

International Civil Aviation Organisation

• ICAO is a United Nations (UN) specialized agency, established in 1944, which laid the foundation for the standards and procedures for peaceful global air navigation.
• The Convention on International Civil Aviation was signed on 7th December 1944 in Chicago.
• It established the core principles permitting international transport by air, and also led to the creation of the ICAO.
• Its one of the objectives is to foster the planning and development of international air transport so as to ensure the safe and orderly growth of international civil aviation throughout the world.
• India is among its 193 members.
• It is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.