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U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday released a statement renewing his call for the State Department to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, following the Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands announced that it will prosecute and seek international arrest warrants for four individuals, including three Russian nationals, responsible for the missile attack that downed MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people.

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