Jordan lodges complaint against new international Israeli airport

Jordan protested the opening of a new international airport just kilometers away from its border with Israel, local media reported Sunday. The Jordanian govt has expressed concerns about the Ramon international airport as early as 2015. The Kingdom's official opinion is that the airport will violate its air sovereignty, simply by being so close to its border - the air strip is only 18 kilometers inside Israeli territory. Govt officials talking in parliament in April 2018 said they were still convinced that "Israel was doing something illegal" but that the Israeli govt had chosen to ignore Jordan's concerns. Jordan had now lodged an official objection with international authorities. It wasn’t known what the effects of this complaint would be, with nobody in Israel doubting that the airport's inauguration, set for Jan 22nd, would go ahead. <br/>