Two Latvian citizens who survived Dalny Vostok sinking to leave for Latvia on Saturday - Foreign Ministry
YUZHO-SAKHALINSK. April 10 (Interfax) - Two citizens of Latvia who have been rescued from the trawler Dalny Vostok will leave for Latvia on Saturday, Vladimir Nosov, Russian Foreign Ministry representative in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, told Interfax.
"We are now issuing them transit visas. We are going to send them home through Moscow on Saturday," he said. Nosov said the body of the Latvian citizen killed in the sinking will be taken to Latvia by his relatives, who have now arrived in Sakhalin and who have already been issued a death certificate.
According to Nosov, documents are also being made for the 22 citizens of Myanmar who have survived the sinking. They will most likely be sent home on Wednesday. "Death certificates have been issued for 16 citizens of Myanmar, Their bodies will be sent to their relatives next week. Another four are missing," Nosov said.
The documents for the surviving citizens of Vanuatu are now being issued through the Russian embassy in Australia. "Because Vanuatu has no embassy or consular establishments in Russia, we have sent the rescued Vanuatu citizens' applications for temporary IDs to the Russian embassy in Australia. The embassy, for its part, sent these documents to the embassy of Vanuatu in Australia, which has confirmed the receipt of the documents and promised to send documents needed for sending these people home in the next few days," Nosov said.
Nosov said two rescued citizens of Vanuatu and the bodies of two citizens of Vanuatu who were killed in the sinking will be sent to Vanuatu from Sakhalin, One citizen of Vanuatu is listed as missing, he said.
Nosov said investigators have now finished questioning the foreign sailors.