Brussels – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that Ukraine has guaranteed that the amnesty, foreseen by the new Minsk agreements, will not cover those responsible for the downing of the flight MH17 in July in Ukraine, DutchNews reported on Feb. 13.
“There is a ‘cast iron’ guarantee from Ukraine that the people who shot down Malaysian Airways flight MH17 will not go unpunished,” Rutte said.
In turn, Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders also said that Kyiv had guaranteed that.
According to him, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko publicly said that the persons responsible would be brought to justice.
As reported, a Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777, which was flying from Amsterdam, the Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with the flight number MH17, was shot down in eastern Ukraine on July 17. All 298 people on board were killed. They included 192 Dutch citizens (one also had U.S. citizenship), 44 Malaysians, including the 15 crew members, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, ten Britons (one also had South African citizenship), four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos, one Canadian and one New Zealander.
