A charter of an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, which Malaysia has proposed setting up via a UN Security Council decision, has already been agreed upon, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.
“We recently forwarded a proposal to the UN Security Council on endorsing the draft [resolution] on setting up a special tribunal to punish those responsible. We agreed upon its draft charter through consultations. And we have reached agreement that we will work with the draft resolution and the draft charter at the ministerial level next week,” Klimkin said at the Verkhovna Rada on July 15.
It was reported earlier that the Malaysian delegation to the UN had submitted a draft Security Council resolution providing for the establishment of an international tribunal to independently investigate the downing of MH17 over Ukraine.
The draft resolution obliges the UN Security Council to put together an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the MH17 crash on July 17, 2014.
Malaysia argued that such a tribunal would be an efficient guarantee of an independent and unbiased investigation process, as the downing of the airliner posed a threat to international peace and security.
Moscow has spoken against the establishment of such a tribunal.
A Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over an armed conflict area in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on July 17, 2014. All 283 passengers and 15 crewmembers on board the plane were killed.
