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Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeniy Yenin said that the Iranian government planned to budget 200 million euros for 2021 to compensate relatives of those killed in the Ukraine International Airlines plane crash.
Iran withdrew the offer to pay the families of those killed in aa plane crash of “Ukraine International Airlines”. About that on the air of “Public Radio” December 8 said Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeniy Yenin.
According to him, the Iranian government has withdrawn a proposal to commit 200 million euros in the budget for 2021 to compensate the relatives of those killed in the plane crash.
“It was assumed that 200 million euros will be allocated from the national development fund, which led to serious internal discussions in Iranian society, but we will welcome the plans of the Iranian government to reserve a certain amount of funds in the budget for compensation. Yenin said.
He noted that negotiations with the Iranian side have not yet started on the amount of compensation.
“Ukraine’s position stems from the fact that the level of compensation will largely depend on the circumstances of the disaster and the level of cooperation of the Iranian side, in particular with Ukraine to ensure an objective and impartial investigation of the disaster,” he said the vice minister.
Boeing 737-800 passenger plane of “Ukraine International Airlines” flight PS752, which was heading from Tehran to Kiev, crashed on January 8 near the capital of Iran… On board were 167 passengers and nine crew members. Nobody survived. Among the dead – 11 citizens of Ukraine. Most of the passengers were Iranian and Canadian citizens.
Iranian authorities, who initially claimed that the plane crashed due to a technical malfunction, on January 11, under pressure from Western leaders, admitted that flight PS752 was shot down by an Iranian missile by mistake.
On June 20, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an interview with the Canadian publication Globe and Mail admitted that Lawsuits will be filed against Iran. before international courts if this country does not comply with its obligations in relation to the UIA plane crash. According to Zelensky, Ukraine is waiting for an official apology for the incident.
July 23thMinister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Yevhen Yenin said decryption of the black box data, which was completed in France, confirmed illegal interference with a passenger liner.
On August 23, the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization released a series of data received from the on-board voice recorder and the flight data recorder of the UIA plane. According to the records, the crew knew about the emergency and tried to control the plane to the end.
Iran has stated that agree to pay compensation for the fallen Ukrainian passenger Boeing. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that solving this problem “will take time and will have several aspects from a technical and legal point of view”, and the head of the Central Insurance Organization of Iran, Gholamreza Suleimani, said the UIA should not receive compensation from Iran, as the Boeing shot down by the Iranian military was insured by European companies.
Ukraine, as a state, is negotiating with Iran along with other countries whose citizens died on board. These negotiations began on July 29. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said the first round of negotiations lasted 11 hours. As a result, the parties could not agree on the amount of compensation for the downed Boeing.
October 19 the second stage of the negotiations started in Iran… Kiev said it wants to find out all the circumstances of the missile attack on the plane. At the end of the first day, Jenin reported that Iran willing to pay the same compensation relatives of disaster victims, regardless of citizenship. INthe second round of negotiations ended on October 20.
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