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Moscow regards as unjust the Netherlands’ accusations of insufficient help for MH17 crash investigation

Russian Aviaton » Friday October 20, 2017 12:31 MSK
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Moscow regards as unjust the Netherlands’ accusations of insufficient help for investigation into the Malaysian Boeing crash in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on the statements made by Dutch Prosecutor General Fred Westerbeke in an interview with the Novaya Gazeta newspaper.

"What we initially saw regarding the investigation into the MH17 crash has been confirmed again, only now it is being stated officially, by the Dutch prosecutor general," Zakharova noted.

"I mean an openly biased attitude towards Russia and an extremely selective approach of the Netherlands towards the establishment of an evidential base, which cannot be called objective."

"Westerbeke’s interview demonstrated that contribution to the investigation conducted by Ukraine and the US and information from the internet is for some reason regarded as highly valuable, whereas any help from Russia is undermined, be it data disclosed in an unprecedented way for the investigation or a comprehensive experiment conducted by the Almaz-Antey concern, or Russian primary radar data - the most objective and precise information that may really help the investigation," the diplomat pointed out.

Attitude towards cooperation with Russia is rather dubious, she said. "Westerbeke calls it complicated and doubts Russia’s wish to really cooperate," the ministry spokeswoman said.

"Such statements are highly unjust, considering the great amount of information Russia has been providing for the investigation since its first day," Maria Zakharova stated. "Let alone the fact that it was the Netherlands that was among [the countries] that rejected the Russian side’s wish to become a full member of the Joint Investigation Team [JIT]."