WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Department finalized an purchase on Tuesday banning ticket gross sales for air vacation between the United States and Belarus, acting following Minsk pressured a Ryanair flight to land and arrested a dissident journalist who was aboard.

The section on June 29 experienced issued a present result in buy proposing the limits after the U.S. Condition Division decided that limiting vacation among the United States and Belarus was in Washington’s foreign policy interest in light-weight of the diversion of the Ryanair (RYA.I) flight.

The get, which is correctly immediately, also applies to “interline” journey in which tickets are acquired through one airline that comprise flights operated by various airways.