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Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman says he hopes Ukraine will ratify a document next week to empower an international police force to work at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in the Donetsk region.

“There is the need today to ratify this agreement that has been
signed regarding the deployment of an international police mission that
would protect experts working on this territory,” Hroisman said at a
news conference in Kyiv on July 25.

There is full interaction between the president, the government, and
the parliament to find ways for securing such ratification in the near
future, he said.

The agreement envisions the transfer of all rights to investigate the plane crash to the Netherlands, Hroisman said.

“We are willing to support such a police mission related to the
guarding of the site for expert access, and a special document is being
prepared now and should be ratified by the parliament, and I hope this
may happen next week,” he said.

Ukraine and the Netherlands signed an agreement in Kyiv on July 24
on delegating all rights to investigate the plane crash to The Hague.
Ukraine also signed an agreement with Australia on Friday on deploying a
civilian police mission to guard the crash site.

The Verkhovna Rada scheduled its next plenary session for Aug. 12.

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala
Lumpur crashed in the Donetsk region, killing all the 298 people on
board.