“The Russian side emphasizes its readiness to work closely on the issues of investigating the reasons and conditions of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine,” the Kremlin said on its official website.
Vladimir Putin confirmed Moscow’s unchanging position on the inexpediency of setting up a tribunal in regard to the Malaysia Airlines plane crash.
"The unchanged position in the inexpediency of establishing such a court organ was confirmed by the Russian president. It was also noted that many questions remain in the investigation," the press service said in a statement.
The initiative to establish the tribunal was proposed by Malaysia earlier in July, and backed by Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Ukraine. On Monday, Russian envoy to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said that Moscow would vote against the draft resolution on the creation of the tribunal.
At the same time, Vladimir Putin expressed his regrets on the UN Security Council’s decision on the compromise project of the MH17 plane crash investigation that was not supported by the countries pushing for an international tribunal of the crash, the Kremlin said on its website Wednesday.
“Regret was expressed over the fact that the compromise project was not supported by states pushing for the creation of an international tribunal on the Malaysia Airlines airplane catastrophe,” the statement on the site reads.
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All 298 people on board, mostly Dutch citizens, died.
The preliminary report by the Dutch Safety Board suggested that the plane broke up in mid-air after being hit by numerous high-energy objects that had penetrated it from the outside. A final report is expected to be released in October.
