AP Top News｜比利时主要欧洲货运机场因无人机目击事件暂停航班

BRUSSELS (AP) Flights out of one of Europes biggest cargo airports were briefly suspended after drones were spotted, an airport official said Friday, an incident that comes amid a spate of incidents around Belgium in recent weeks.

Christian Delcourt, the head of communications for Liege airport, said drones forced a sequence of flight interruptions between 9 p.m. Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday, and again between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Friday, when full operations resumed.

Dozens of flights at Belgiums main international airport in Brussels were canceled on Wednesday after drone sightings on Tuesday night forced it to close temporarily, prompting Prime Minister Bart De Wever to convene emergency government talks.

It was the first time that the airport in Brussels was shut down by drones. The incidents come after a series of unidentified drone flights over the weekend near a military base where U.S. nuclear weapons are stored.

More drones were spotted near the base, Kleine-Brogel, on Wednesday evening.

Little new emerged from Thursdays emergency talks, although Defense Minister Theo Francken said a decision was taken to get the National Air Safety Center at Beauvechain air base in eastern Belgium fully operational by January 1.

This center will ensure better monitoring and protection of Belgian airspace, and prepare Belgium for future challenges in air safety, Francken said in a post on social media.

NATO declined to say whether drones had been spotted near its headquarters in Brussels, its military HQ in Mons, southern Belgium, or other alliance-linked facilities across the country.

In recent months, drone incidents across Europe have forced airports to suspend flights temporarily. Mysterious drone flights over the airspace of European Union member countries in recent months have alarmed the public and elected officials.

Russia has been blamed in some cases, but Belgium has not said who has been operating the drones. Francken has said that he believed that some incidents were part of a spying operation that could not have been done by amateurs.

Belgium also hosts the headquarters the EU, as well as Europes biggest financial clearinghouse holding tens of billions of euros in frozen Russian assets . Many EU countries want to use those assets as collateral to provide loans to Ukraine, but Belgium has so far resisted.

De Wever, the prime minister, warned EU leaders last month that Russia might retaliate if the money is confiscated. EU leaders are due to discuss the issue again at a summit in Brussels next month.

布鲁塞尔（美联社）——一名机场官员周五表示，欧洲最大货运机场之一的航班在发现无人机后短暂停飞。这一事件发生在比利时近期一连串类似事件之中。

列日机场通讯主管克里斯蒂安·德尔库尔表示，无人机导致航班在周四晚9点至周五凌晨1点期间多次中断，周五上午7点至8点期间再次出现中断，之后全面恢复运营。

周二晚间，布鲁塞尔无人机目击事件迫使比利时主要国际机场暂时关闭，导致周三数十架航班取消，首相巴特·德韦弗（Bart De Wever）随即召开政府紧急会议。

这是布鲁塞尔机场首次因无人机干扰而关闭。此前周末期间，在存放美国核武器的军事基地附近发生了一系列不明无人机飞行事件。

周三晚间，在克莱恩-布罗赫尔基地附近发现了更多无人机。

周四的紧急会谈并未取得实质性进展，不过国防部长西奥·弗兰肯表示，会上已作出决定，要求位于比利时东部博韦尚空军基地的国家航空安全中心在1月1日前全面投入运行。

弗兰肯在社交媒体发文中表示：“该中心将加强对比利时领空的监控与保护能力，并为应对未来航空安全领域的挑战做好准备。”

北约拒绝透露是否在布鲁塞尔总部、比利时南部蒙斯的军事总部或该国其他与北约相关的设施附近发现无人机。

近几个月来，欧洲各地频发的无人机事件迫使多个机场暂时停航。欧盟成员国领空接连出现的神秘无人机活动，引发了公众和民选官员的高度警觉。

俄罗斯在某些事件中受到指责，但比利时尚未透露无人机的操作者身份。弗兰肯表示，他认为部分事件属于"间谍行动"的一部分，绝非业余人士所为。

比利时不仅是欧盟总部所在地，还拥有欧洲最大的金融清算机构，该机构持有数百亿欧元被冻结的俄罗斯资产。许多欧盟国家希望以这些资产作为抵押向乌克兰提供贷款，但比利时迄今仍未同意。

比利时首相德韦弗上月警告欧盟领导人，若没收相关资金，俄罗斯可能采取报复行动。欧盟领导人定于下月在布鲁塞尔举行的峰会上再次讨论这一问题。