The Worldwide Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has concluded that Russia is accountable for the downing of flight MH17 in July 2014 and has thus violated the Conference on Worldwide Civil Aviation.

Supply: European Pravda; Ministry of International Affairs of the Netherlands, which, along with Australia, initiated authorized motion in opposition to Russia on the ICAO

Particulars: The ICAO Council has issued a call on the case introduced by the Netherlands and Australia in March 2022 in opposition to the Russian Federation with respect to the downing of flight MH17 on 17 July 2014.

The choice was made on Monday 12 Might by a vote of ICAO Council members. A big majority of Council members supported the place of the Netherlands and Australia.

The subsequent step is to find out the type of reparation required from Russia. Initially, ICAO should order Russia to begin negotiations with the Netherlands and Australia and may facilitate this course of.

"The latter is vital to be able to be certain that the negotiations are carried out in good religion and in keeping with particular timelines, and that they’ll yield precise outcomes," the Dutch International Ministry defined.

Moscow introduced in the summertime of 2024 that it might unilaterally droop its participation within the dispute on the Worldwide Civil Aviation Organisation.

Background:

• On 17 November 2022, the District Courtroom of The Hague sentenced Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky and Leonid Kharchenko to life imprisonment in absentia for his or her function within the downing of Malaysian Airways flight MH17 over Donbas and ordered their arrest.
• The Hague courtroom additionally recognised that Russia managed the so-called Donetsk Folks's Republic on the time of the downing of MH17.

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