This year, the tenth preambular paragraph of the draft resolution welcomes work undertaken on airport vulnerability assessments. Those assessments are technical studies of an airport's perimetre to assess vulnerability to MANPADS attack on arriving or departing aircraft.

Initially they entered the flight information region (FIR) of Nicosia from an easterly direction (FIR of Ankara) without prior notice, and then flew perimetrically along the south coast of Cyprus at a distance of 17 nautical miles; the distance was reduced to 10 nautical miles over the Akrotiri area.

Initially they entered the FIR of Nicosia from the FIR of Ankara without prior notice and then overflew perimetrically along the south coast of Cyprus at a distance of 14 nautical miles and at 10 nautical miles while approaching the Akrotiri area.

Initially they entered the FIR of Nicosia from an easterly direction (FIR of Ankara) without prior notice, and then overflew perimetrically along the south coast of Cyprus at a distance of 17 nautical miles; the distance was reduced at 10 nautical miles over the Akrotiri area.

Initially they entered the FIR of Nicosia from the FIR of Ankara without prior notice and then overflew perimetrically along the south coast of Cyprus at a distance of 14 nautical miles and at 10 nautical miles, while approaching the Akrotiri area.

More specifically, on 13 and 14 October 2005, two formations of Turkish military aircrafts (four and six, respectively) violated the national airspace of the Republic of Cyprus and the flight information region of Nicosia, flying perimetrically along the southern coasts of Cyprus, in complete defiance of all international air traffic regulations and in full disrespect of all appeals of the international community to avoid escalation of tension in Cyprus at this particularly crucial juncture.