Bolivia has filed a complaint at the United Nations over what it says was the “kidnapping” of its president Evo Morales when his airplane was forced to land in Vienna on a false suspicion that he was ferrying NSA leaker Edward Snowden out of Moscow.

The Bolivian presidential plane was taking Morales home from an energy conference in Russia and was in mid-flight when France and Portugal suddenly withdrew permission for the plane to cross their respective airspaces.  It was diverted to Vienna where the Austrians confirmed that Snowden was not on the plane.  Morales was delayed by half a day, but took off again for La Paz.

Bolivia’s UN ambassador Sacha Llorenti says the episode was an act of aggression and in violation of international law.

“We're talking about the president on an official trip after an official summit being kidnapped,” he said in Geneva.

“We have no doubt that it was an order from the White House. By no means should a diplomatic plane with the president be diverted from its route and forced to land in another country.”

In addition to the UN complain, some Bolivian officials are talking about taking action at the International Court of Justice at the Hague.

The White House declined to comment.

America wants to arrest former spy subcontractor Edward Snowden for smuggling a host of classified documents out of the National Security Agency’s computers and skipping out of the country.