Published time: July 20, 2014 21:42
Edited time: July 21, 2014 08:51
Edited time: July 21, 2014 08:51
The tragic Malaysian MH17 flight crash must not be
politicised and the international experts on the scene should be able to carry
out their work in complete safety, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
“There are already representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk
working there, as well as representatives of the emergencies ministry of
Ukraine and others. But this is not enough,” Putin said officially commenting on the tragic
event on Sunday.
“This task force is not enough,” Putin emphasized. “We need more, we need
a fully representative group of experts to be working at the site under the
guidance of ICAO, the relevant international commission.”
“We must do everything to provide security for the
international experts on the site of the tragedy,” Putin stressed, adding that Russia will also do
everything in its power to help shift the Ukrainian conflict from a military
phase into a political discussion.
“We need to do everything to provide its [ICAO
commission’s] safety, to provide the humanitarian corridors necessary for its
work,” Putin
added.
“In the meantime, nobody should and has no right to
use this tragedy to achieve their ‘narrowly selfish’ political goals,” Putin stated.
“We repeatedly called upon all conflicting sides to
stop the bloodshed immediately and sit down at the negotiating table,” the President reminded. “I can say with
confidence that if military operations were not resumed on June 28 in eastern
Ukraine, this tragedy wouldn’t have happened.”
In the meantime, Russia has introduced its own draft
resolution to the UN Security Council calling for an impartial investigation of
Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in Ukraine, Russia’s ambassador to UN Vitaly
Churkin said.
‘Yes, we did it,” Churkin told reported answering the question
about Russia’s draft. “Just to show what we are talking about. The
difference is that in our draft it is absolutely clear it is indeed an
impartial international investigation under the under the guidance of ICAO.”
According to the latest figures from the Donetsk
authorities, 247 out of 298 bodies have been recovered from the crash site.
OSCE confirmed that a train with bodies of the victims is being stationed at a
railway station in Torez and is set to depart for Donetsk. The bodies are being
kept in especially refrigerated cars.
A team of ISCE experts and four Ukrainian forensics
analysts are the only experts who have so far reached the area and are working
on the investigation. A team of 12 Malaysian experts is yet to arrive at the
crash site. Experts from other European nations, including the Netherlands,
France. Germany and the UK are en route to Donetsk.
The OSCE team has claimed that the black boxes have
not been recovered, yet Aleksandr Boroday, the republic’s prime minister, told
reporters that DPR might potentially be in possession of the MH17 black boxes. "What
we have is just some components of the plane. We are not experts; we think that
they may be black boxes but we're not sure."
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