Dutch and Australian Foreign Ministers Frans Timmermans and Julie Bishop attended the ceremony of sending the remains of those killed in the Malaysian Boeing 777-200 plane crash from Kharkiv to Eindhoven on July 25 .
About 200 experts from Australia engaged in investigating the plane
crash and identifying bodies are in Ukraine right now, Bishop told
reporters.
The prime minister announced today that in the future Australian
policemen will be sent to participate in the investigation at the crash
site and negotiations are being held now with Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitors working with separatists in
order to guarantee their safe access to the scene, Bishop said.
The cooperation levels between experts engaged in probing the reasons
on the plane crash and identifying bodies and Ukraine is high,
Timmermans said.
A Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200 en route from Amsterdam (the
Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) crashed in the Donetsk region on
July 17 and all 298 people on board died.
Planes with 114 special containers arrived to Eindhoven from Kharkiv
on July 23 and July 24. Two more jets with 74 special containers on
board departed from Kharkiv on July 25.
