DPR ready to cease fire for Boeing crash investigation, to let experts visit crash scene
MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) militia is ready to proclaim a truce for the period of the Boeing 777 crash investigation and to let experts, among them Ukrainian detectives, visit the crash scene, DPR First Vice-Premier Andrei Purgin told Interfax.
"We are negotiating a humanitarian truce of two to four days with the purpose of probing the causes of the Boeing crash in the Donetsk airspace," Purgin told Interfax.
"The Contact Group will carry on consultations to this effect at noon, local time (1 p.m. Moscow time)," Purgin said.
The Contact Group composition has been unchanged; it still comprises the DPR, Kyiv, Russia and the OSCE, he noted.
The militia "is ready to provide an unhampered access and to guarantee the security of experts on the crash scene," Purgin said.
"Reportedly, the international team will include representatives of the Donetsk People's Republic, the OSCE, the ICAO and another two organizations investigating plane crashes," he said.
"We are ready to give access even to Ukrainian detectives," the DPR first vice-premier stressed.
