The immediate priorities following the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH17 over Ukraine must be to comfort the families of victims and to ensure the safety of other passenger flights over war-torn countries.
After that, there will be calls for justice for the victims and to bring peace to Ukraine to avoid another missile attack on civilian airplanes. Diplomacy will play a key role in this.
One important tool of diplomacy is international litigation before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a UN-sanctioned court based in the Netherlands. Although the ICJ could take years to decide if Russia or Ukraine bear …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
