Lavrov: Russia won’t take control of Malaysian plane’s black boxes
The seizure of flight records would violate international law as it’s up to relevant international agencies to investigate of the incident, he explained.
The analysis of the flight recorders “is the responsibility of ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organization]; it’s the responsibility of those states which have the most direct connection to this tragedy – the Netherlands, Malaysia and the states whose citizens were on board, and of course Ukraine,”Lavrov said.
The minister also called on the UN Security Council to urgently launch an open and impartial investigation into the plane crash in Ukraine.
“We want international experts to arrive on the crash site as soon as possible and retrieve the flight recorders in an instant,» the FM stressed. “Despite statements coming from Kiev, we have no plans to seize the flight recorders.”
The minister welcomed the plans of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to create a special commission to investigate the tragedy, but stressed that such a “group must be put together urgently, as soon as possible.”
The claims by the Ukrainian authorities that the crash of the Malaysian passenger jet was a terrorist act are unacceptable, Lavrov stressed.
“The Ukrainian investigators will be guided in their work [by those statements], which is unacceptable pressure on the activities of the commission,” he explained.
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