In Moscow, they will not recognize the decision of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in the case of the crash of the Malaysian Airlines the MH17 flight in 2014. This is stated in the message of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“Russia will not recognize the decision of the Council, it is illegitimate, contradicts the Convention on the International Civil Aviation of 1944 and its own rules of the procedure. Unlike the engaged majority in the Council, Russia remains a committed resolution of the UN Security Council 2166 (2014) and the establishment of the true causes of the plane crash,” follows from the message.
The Russian department indicated that Russia last year – June 17, 2024 – “stopped participating in the indicated proceedings, since in the conditions of numerous procedural violations by the Council and the ICAO secretariat it was impossible to talk about the impartial establishment of facts.”
The Russian side several times offered the Council to conduct a complete, thorough and independent international investigation of the MH17 flight crash, as required by the UN Security Council of the UN 2166 (2014). However, the Council for political reasons refused to conduct such an investigation in violation of the procedure and, instead, accepted Australia and the Netherlands on the belief and the results of the work of the joint investigative group (SSG); The same Australia, the Netherlands, as well as Ukraine.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also drew attention to the fact that “the Council completely ignored the presence of Ukrainian air defense systems” Buk “and the labeling of the wreckage of the rocket indicating its Ukrainian origin.”
“It was Kyiv that refused to close the airspace over the war zone using civil passenger aircraft – such as MN17 – to cover its bombers,” the Russian department added.
May 12, ICAO Council made a decision on the collapse of the Malaysian Boeing Malaisi MH17, nominated by Australia and the Netherlands in March 2022.
As the press release published by IKAO on the evening of May 12, “the Council came to the conclusion that the claims put forward by Australia and the Netherlands due to the fact that the plane, which executed the MH-17 flight on July 17, 2014, was shot down, justified both from the actual and legal point of view.”
July 17, 2014 Boeing-777, which executed the MN-17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed over the territory of the Donetsk region of Ukraine. All 298 people on board the airliner died.