Dutch, Australian foreign ministers attend ceremony to send remains of crash victims from Kharkiv to Eindhoven
KHARKIV. July 25 (Interfax) - Dutch and Australian Foreign Ministers Frans Timmermans and Julie Bishop attended the ceremony of sending the remains of those killed in the Malaysian Boeing 777-200 plane crash from Kharkiv to Eindhoven on Friday.
About 200 experts from Australia engaged in investigating the plane crash and identifying bodies are in Ukraine right now, Bishop told reporters.
The prime minister announced today that in the future Australian policemen will be sent to participate in the investigation at the crash site and negotiations are being held now with Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitors working with separatists in order to guarantee their safe access to the scene, Bishop said.
The cooperation levels between experts engaged in probing the reasons on the plane crash and identifying bodies and Ukraine is high, Timmermans said.
A Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200 en route from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) crashed in the Donetsk region on July 17 and all 298 people on board died.
Planes with 114 special containers arrived to Eindhoven from Kharkiv on July 23 and July 24. Two more jets with 74 special containers on board departed from Kharkiv on Friday.