The sides with the veto

Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine appealed to the UN Security Council with a request to create an international criminal tribunal to prosecute the Boeing-777 passenger aircraft in eastern Ukraine in July last year. This was reported by the press center of the permanent representative office of Ukraine at the UN.

"Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Ukraine believe that the creation by the UN Security Council of an independent international criminal tribunal is the best means to ensure justice for victims and their relatives and will comply with the highest international standards. Such actions will be an adequate UN reaction to the tragedy, since the income and related consequences for civil aviation safety are affected by the interests of the international community as a whole. Given this, five countries make efforts to provide support from the UN Security Council to create a tribunal, ”the report said.

The initiators of the convocation of the tribunal recall that immediately after the Boeing-777 disaster , the UN Security Council adopted a resolution demanding that the perpetrators be held accountable and ensure cooperation at the interstate level to investigate the death of the liner. "Creating for this purpose of the international tribunal, in accordance with Section VII of the UN Charter, will be a clear signal that the international community will not put up with acts that threaten the international world and security and endanger civil aviation," the message says.

On June 24, Reuters reported that the Netherlands are discussing with their allies the possibility of creating an international tribunal to judge suspects in the death of Boeing-777. On July 8, the Malaysian delegation distributed a draft resolution in the Council of People's Commissars demanding to create such a tribunal.

This caused a sharply negative reaction from Russia. On July 8, the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Gennady Gatilov said that Russia considers the creation of the International Tribunal to be "illogical and unnecessary . “In principle, this idea is not satisfied at all,” Gatilov said. According to him, the investigation is still ongoing and no final conclusions have been made.

On July 9, the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin said that the Malaysian draft resolution does not classify the disaster, so there are no prospects . "I personally do not see any prospect of these documents. They must be postponed to the side, wait for the results of the investigation and then think about how to organize the trial more efficiently," Churkin said.

In September last year, the International Investigative Commission published only a preliminary report. It says that the plane received numerous damage from the outside . What exactly caused these damage was not indicated in the report. It was reported that a full report on the death of the Boeing-777 The commission should publish in October this year.

On July 11, the Prime Minister of Malaysia Nadzhib Oreak said that the investigation of the causes of the death of the Boeing-777 in eastern Ukrainewill last at least until the end of this year . According to him, the international group of investigators has a "clear picture" of the causes of the death of the liner. However, all possible versions are worked out in detail. The prime minister emphasized that the purpose of the investigation is to attract all persons responsible for the tragedy to the court. "I will do everything possible to find the guilty," said the Prime Minister.

Most experts believe that the liner was shot down by the Buk air defense system, released from the territory controlled by the separatists. The report of the Russian Corporation "Almaz-Antei", the manufacturer of Bukov, claims that the rocket was Ukrainian. At the same time, the TFR continues to adhere to the version that the liner was shot down by the Ukrainian Su-25.