Int'l committee delayed inviting Russia to participate in probing plane crash in Ukraine - Russian Foreign Ministry
MOSCOW. July 30 (Interfax) - Russia received the invitation to participate in the investigation of the Malaysian Boeing crash just several days ago and got to work immediately, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement.
"As to the cooperation itself, according to the existing international standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), while not being a participant of the aviation accident, Russia can not come and say - hello, we start to participate in the probe," the document said.
"We should receive an official invitation from the international committee, in other words from the Dutch party. Such an invitation was sent just several days ago and after that we appointed our representatives immediately," Lukashevich said.
