Netherlands to coordinate victim identification efforts as UN set to vote on MH17 disaster resolution. --Ukrainian troops take control of roads to Donetsk from airport

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Sunday a team of international forensic experts will finally reach the Ukrainian crash site of flight MH17 on Monday, and that the Netherlands will coordinate the efforts for identifying the victims.

"The OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) intends early tomorrow to take the identification mission, with the Dutch experts, to the site," Rutte told a press conference in The Hague.

He said that the Dutch would be coordinating the task of identifying the 298 dead from Thursday's Malaysian plane crash.

"Yesterday and today, Frans Timmermans (Foreign Minister) and I had contact with many parties involved in repatriation of the dead people," said Rutte.

"We have agreed that the Netherlands will get the international coordination of the identification of the victims," he added.

A unit of the Ministry of Defense will travel from Eindhoven airport to the government-held city of Kharkiv, more than 250 km north of the crash site, with people and resources to organize the coordination center. The Dutch police chief, Gert Wibbelink, will lead the identification team.

• Bodies from the Malaysia Airlines crash site in eastern Ukraine have been taken to a nearby train station and loaded onto refrigerated train cars to be sent home for burial.

But the departure of dozens of corpses was delayed on Sunday as Ukrainian officials and rebels traded blame over why the train had not yet left the war zone, and where or when international investigators would be able to check it.

Western officials have voiced concern about the handling of the remains of the 298 people killed when the airliner crashed on Thursday. More than half of the victims were Dutch. The Dutch foreign minister has said his country is "furious" to hear bodies were being "dragged around."

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday what was happening at the crash site was "really grotesque."

"Drunken separatists have been piling bodies into trucks and removing them from the site," Kerry said on the CBS.

After lying for two days in the summer heat, the bodies had been removed from a large swathe of the crash site by Sunday, leaving only bloodstained military stretchers along the side of the road.

U.N. TO VOTE ON MH17 DISASTER RESOLUTION

An urgent vote could take place as early as Monday in the U.N. Security Council on a resolution demanding international access to the Ukraine plane crash site.

• The resolution calls for the separatists to allow international access to the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines passenger jet and asks for full cooperation of all countries in the region, including Russia.

The resolution demands that armed groups who control the crash site do not disturb debris, belongings or victims' remains and cease military activities in the area.

It also demands that "those responsible for this incident be held to account and that all states cooperate fully with efforts to establish accountability."................http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/871722.shtml
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• Australia drafts MH17 restriction resolution...

• The UN Security Council has completed work on a draft resolution regarding Boeing airliner’s crash in Ukraine; a vote on the draft resolution will be held at 3 p.m. EDT (7 p.m. UTC) on Monday, British Ambassador to the United Nations Mark Lyall Grant has said

• John Kerry: "Enormous amount of evidence" Russia involved in MH17 crash

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• Ukrainian troops take control of roads to Donetsk from airport

Ukrainian troops had taken control of the main ways to Donetsk from the airport, a spokesman for the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, Andrei Lysenko, said on Monday.

"We have managed to seize the main ways leading to Donetsk from the side of Donetsk airport," he said.
Fighting was continuing near the residential sites of Marinovka, Krasnaya Zorya and Tarany.
As was reported earlier, Donetsk was being intensively shelled.

Ukrainian warplanes delivered an air strike by unguided rocket projectiles at the railway station in the city of Donetsk on Monday morning. Around six projectiles were fired. Railway tracks and a locomotive were damaged in projectile blasts. 
The marketplace is on fire. The mayor’s office noted that the bus terminal was closed and the traffic was restricted.
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