Bolivia denies Snowden on president's plane

MEXICO CITY, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca Tuesday denied rumors that U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden was on the plane flying Bolivia's president out of Europe, after the plane was diverted on suspicions it was carrying both men.

In a televised announcement, the minister said "we don't know who invented the lie, but we want to denounce the injustice of ( diverting) President Evo Morales' plane to the international community."

The plane carrying Morales from Moscow, where he was attending a meeting of natural gas-producing nations, was diverted to Vienna, Austria after France and Portugal refused to allow it to enter their airspace.

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