Taskforce at Malaysia MH17 crash site not enough, full-scale intl team needed � RT News

Published time: July 20, 2014 21:42

Edited time: July 21, 2014 08:51

Russian President Vladimir Putin.(AFP Photo / Alexei Nikolsky)

The tragic Malaysian MH17 flight crash must not be politicised and the international experts on thescene should be able to carry out their work in complete safety, Russian President Vladimir Putinsaid.

"There are already representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk working there, as well asrepresentatives of the emergencies ministry of Ukraine and others. But this is not enough," Putinsaid officially commenting on the tragic event on Sunday.

"This task force is not enough," Putin emphasized. "We need more, we need a fully representativegroup of experts to be working at the site under the guidance of ICAO, the relevant internationalcommission."

"We must do everything to provide security for the international experts on the site of the tragedy,"Putin stressed, adding that Russia will also do everything in its power to help shift the Ukrainianconflict from a military phase into a political discussion.

"We need to do everything to provide its [ICAO commission's] safety, to provide the humanitariancorridors necessary for its work," Putin added.

"In the meantime, nobody should and has no right to use this tragedy to achieve their 'narrowlyselfish' political goals," Putin stated.

"We repeatedly called upon all conflicting sides to stop the bloodshed immediately and sit down atthe negotiating table," the President reminded. "I can say with confidence that if military operationswere not resumed on June 28 in eastern Ukraine, this tragedy wouldn't have happened."

In the meantime, Russia has introduced its own draft resolution to the UN Security Council callingfor an impartial investigation of Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in Ukraine, Russia's ambassador toUN Vitaly Churkin said.

'Yes, we did it," Churkin told reported answering the question about Russia's draft. "Just to showwhat we are talking about. The difference is that in our draft it is absolutely clear it is indeed animpartial international investigation under the under the guidance of ICAO."

According to the latest figures from the Donetsk authorities, 247 out of 298 bodies have beenrecovered from the crash site. OSCE confirmed that a train with bodies of the victims is beingstationed at a railway station in Torez and is set to depart for Donetsk. The bodies are being kept inespecially refrigerated cars.

A team of ISCE experts and four Ukrainian forensics analysts are the only experts who have so farreached the area and are working on the investigation. A team of 12 Malaysian experts is yet toarrive at the crash site. Experts from other European nations, including the Netherlands, France.Germany and the UK are en route to Donetsk.

The OSCE team has claimed that the black boxes have not been recovered, yet Aleksandr Boroday,the republic's prime minister, told reporters that DPR might potentially be in possession of theMH17 black boxes. "What we have is just some components of the plane. We are not experts; wethink that they may be black boxes but we're not sure."

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