Moscow: Russia is not going to take away the black boxes from the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine, its Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
"We are not going to take away these boxes, nor to violate the rules with regard to this sort of cases within the international community," Xinhua quoted Lavrov as saying in an interview.
"This is the sphere of activity for the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), for the countries that are directly involved: the Netherlands, Malaysia and the ones whose nationals were on board, as well as Ukraine, of course," he said.
The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said on Friday that the flight recorders, once found, should be handed over to the international investigative commission organised under the aegis of the ICAO.
United States officials told media that they concluded the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Investigations are under way to figure out what happened to the plane.
"We are not going to take away these boxes, nor to violate the rules with regard to this sort of cases within the international community," Xinhua quoted Lavrov as saying in an interview.
"This is the sphere of activity for the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), for the countries that are directly involved: the Netherlands, Malaysia and the ones whose nationals were on board, as well as Ukraine, of course," he said.
The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said on Friday that the flight recorders, once found, should be handed over to the international investigative commission organised under the aegis of the ICAO.
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United States officials told media that they concluded the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Investigations are under way to figure out what happened to the plane.
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