He said that after scrutinizing all possible scenarios with military experts they had decided that a Dutch military mission might deteriorate the situation in the region and pose a threat to the process of retrieving the bodies of the crash victims.
The Netherlands however is ready to send from 60 to 160 unarmed servicemen of the royal military police who would be tasked to help Dutch forensic experts recover the bodies of those killed in the air crash.
Apart from that, Australia and Malaysia said they were ready to send their policemen to Ukraine. It is not yet clear when this will take place and whether policemen would be armed. According to the Dutch government, representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are in talks on these matters with the militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk.
On Friday, the Netherlands sent a team of 20 experts and 40 unarmed servicemen to Ukraine, Thirty people were expected to reach the crash site on Sunday but failed due to security considerations. Currently, the group is in Donetsk waiting for the situation to improve in order to be able to finally reach the crash area........................http://en.itar-tass.com/world/742504
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Moscow expects that no one will try to cover traces in the investigation of a Boeing airliner crash in east Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday....
ReplyDeleteBoeing-777 crash should be investigated under UN control, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"We are alarmed about the fact that some of our partners are trying to transfer practical investigation into the course of separate bilateral talks with the Ukrainian government," Lavrov said.
"An investigation mission should be determined by the UN Security Council, based on its credibility and have security guarantess," the Minister added.
The efforts for the Ukrainian conflict settlement have failed because Kiev has been consistently refusing to display respect in negotiations with the Southeast, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov added....................http://en.itar-tass.com/world/742538