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“The resumption of tripartite consultations and our participation have lost meaning due to hostile actions by the Netherlands,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The parties have been holding talks since 2018 with the aim of discovering the causes of the disaster. On July 17, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was hit by a Buk rocket, killing all 298 people on the plane.
The plane, shot down while flying over territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists, was carried by 196 Dutch and 38 Australians.
Moscow complained that The Hague “just after three rounds of discussions” decided to refer Russia to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) “for its role in destroying flight MH17”.
Thus, the Netherlands “demonstrated its intention to take a brutal path … (and) unilaterally attribute responsibility for what happened to Russia,” the ministry said in a statement.
In the past, Dutch leaders openly accused Russia of killing the country’s citizens. Moscow has always vehemently denied having had any role in the plane crash and, in turn, blamed Ukraine.
“Australia and the Netherlands clearly did not try to understand what really happened in the summer of 2014, but rather wanted to secure Russian confession and compensation to the victims’ families,” the Foreign Ministry said.
Russia “will continue to cooperate” with The Hague, but in a “different format,” the ministry added.
In the Netherlands, a trial of four people accused of causing a plane crash began in March.
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