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The Netherlands does not rule out options to achieve justice for the 298 victims of the plane crash and their loved ones.
МН16 – The Netherlands reacted to the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from trilateral consultations / REUTERS
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Steph Blok, says that his country regrets the decision of the Russian Federation to withdraw from consultations on the case of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.
Blok announced this on his microblog. Twitter.
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“Today the Russian Federation announced its unilateral decision to suspend negotiations on its responsibility for the downing of flight MH17. The Netherlands deeply regrets this decision by Russia. This refusal to continue negotiations is especially painful for the families of the victims, “emphasized Blok.
According to him, the Dutch government would like to resume negotiations to reach a decision on justice for those who have suffered losses.
“At the same time, the government has always emphasized that it does not exclude any option to achieve justice for the 298 victims and their loved ones,” Blok said.
Case MH17: what is known
- A Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down on July 17, 2014 over the Russian-occupied Donetsk region. All 298 people on board died. Most of the victims (196 people) are citizens of the Netherlands.
- On May 24, 2018, an international investigation team provided additional evidence of Russia’s key role in the crash of flight MH17. The Group concluded that the Buk anti-aircraft missile system, which shot down the aircraft, belonged to the 53rd Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, stationed in Kursk.
- On June 19, 2019, the joint investigation team announced that the first four suspects in the tragedy of flight MH17 are Russian terrorist Igor Girkin (Strelkov), who was the so-called “DPR Minister of Defense” in the summer of 2014, Russian General Sergei Dubinsky (call sign “Khmury”), who headed the “DPR intelligence”, Oleg Pulatov (call sign “Gyurza”), who in 2014 was “the head of the 2nd department of the GRU” DPR “as well as Leonid Kharchenko (call sign” Krot “), who was the leader of the militant” reconnaissance battalion “.
- In the District Court of The Hague, since March 9, 2020, the trial against four defendants in the MH17 case continues.
- Today, October 15, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that further consultations with Australia and the Netherlands on the MH17 disaster “are pointless” as Russia is being sought “to plead guilty and receive compensation for the relatives of the victims “.
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Vitaly Sayenko
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