The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has called on the countries whose citizens were killed in the July 17 crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 to consider the possibility of sending civilian police units to guard the plane's crash site in eastern Ukraine.
“We are calling on the countries whose citizens became the victims of
this air crash, the countries that, along with Ukraine, are mostly
interested in conducting a comprehensive and independent investigation
to consider the possibility of sending civilian police units in order to
make sure that the site of the air crash remains intact along its
entire perimeter, as well as to extend the required assistance to the
investigation,” the Foreign Ministry said in a commentary in response to
the UN Security Council’s resolution that calls for an international
investigation into the MH17 Flight crash.
Kyiv applauds the UN Security Council’s unanimous vote in favor of
adopting the Australian-sponsored resolution, co-authored by Ukraine,
that calls for an international inquiry into the July 17 incident, the
ministry said.
“We view the results of this vote, as well as the wide range of the
resolution co-authors, as indisputable support on the part of the [UN]
Security Council for the efforts of the international community and
Ukraine to conduct a full, thorough and independent investigation in
coordination with ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organization] and
other international organization,” it said.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said it would like to draw all
countries’ attention to the UN Security Council’s condemnation of the
“downing” of the Malaysian Boeing, as a result of which 298 people were
killed, its demand that armed groups in eastern Ukraine ensure that the
crash site remains intact and prevent the destruction of any personal
belongings, the dead bodies of passengers and other evidence, as well as
provide international investigators, the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine and other
international organizations with immediate and secure access to the
crash site, as well as the UN Security Council’s demand that all
fighting, including by armed groups, must immediately be stopped in the
air crash area.
The UN Security Council also demanded that all those responsible for
this tragedy must be held to account and called on all states to
cooperate in order to identify them, the Ukrainian ministry said.
