The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has ratified the agreement between Ukraine and the Netherlands on prolonging the terms of the agreements between the two countries on the international mission to protect the investigation into the MH17 disaster until Aug. 1, 2016.
A total of 261 MPs voted for the law on July 15.
“It’s highly important for us now that a full and unbiased investigation into the tragedy with the Malaysian Airlines plane due to the terrorist attack on July 17, 2014,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said when presenting the bill.
He said that an independent criminal investigation into the disaster was being conducted and a special group headed by Dutch colleagues is working on the issue.
According to the explanatory note to the bill, the ratification of the agreement will facilitate the further practical involvement of the Dutch party in the investigation.
As reported, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with the flight number MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. Everyone on board the plane was killed. The most probable theory on the cause of the disaster is that the airliner was shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired from the conflict zone in Donbas.
