MOSCOW: A senior Russian official on Friday rejected calls for the establishment of a UN tribunal to try those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine last year.
“We are against it,” deputy foreign minister Gennadiy Gatilov was reported by Russian news agencies as saying.
“We think it is not timely and counterproductive.”
The Netherlands, Malaysia and three other countries want a UN tribunal to investigate the July 2014 crash, which killed all 298 people passengers and crew.
The Boeing 777 passenger jet was travelling between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down in eastern Ukraine, …read more
Source: theSun
