The Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers, some of whom will be armed, will join a contingent of 90 AFP officers already in London waiting for a deal with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to be approved by Ukraine's parliament.
Abbott announced on Thursday that 50 police officers had been deployed to London ahead of the mission, but a police spokeswoman said on Friday that the number was 90. It was unclear why the discrepancy had occurred.
- On Tuesday, Abbott said that Russian-backed rebels who control the area were tampering with evidence on "an industrial scale" and argued that outside police or possibly military forces were needed to ensure that did not continue.
http://www.todayonline.com/world/australia-send-100-extra-police-troops-ukraine-pm-abbott
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- Australia to Send 100 More Officers to MH17 Crash Site...
Australia is close to finalilzing a plan to send 100 additional police and some defense force personnel to Europe to join a planned Dutch-led international security force to secure the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash site, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday.
Armed pro-Russian separatists control the area and have hampered investigators' attempts to access the site.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers, some of whom will be armed, will join a contingent of 90 AFP officers already in London waiting for a deal with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to be approved by the country's parliament.
Abbott stressed that the team, which would include countries that lost citizens in the disaster, would not be going in as part of a military mission.
“This is a humanitarian mission, with a clear and simple objective,” Abbott told reporters. “I expect the operation on the ground in Ukraine, should the deployment go ahead, to last no longer than a few weeks.”..................................http://www.voanews.com/content/australia-to-send-100-more-officers-to-crash-site/1964909.html
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Moscow has emphasized the importance of international efforts under the United Nations of providing safety to experts in eastern Ukraine handling the investigation into the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane that crashed last week....
ReplyDelete“From the Russian side, we emphasize the need of carrying out a complete, objective, and nonbiased investigation into the causes of the airliner crash. The importance of international efforts under the aegis of the UN is emphasized to provide safety for the experts handling this investigation at the crash site,” a document released by the Russian Foreign Ministry after a meeting between Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and British Ambassador Tim Barrow in Moscow.
Media reports said the Netherlands and Australia are drafting a new UN Security Council resolution to allow armed police or troops to secure the MH17 crash site.
A team of 23 investigators is due to be sent to the area, to be accompanied by 40 unarmed Dutch military policemen, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said earlier................http://en.ria.ru/world/20140725/191255029/Moscow-Emphasizes-to-British-Ambassador-Importance-of-Safety-for.html
Dutch and Australians in MH17 talks...
ReplyDeleteThe Netherlands and Australia are seeking access to the crash site of MH17 in eastern Ukraine, as more planes with victims' bodies are flown out.
Foreign ministers from both countries are attending a ceremony marking the departure in the city of Kharkiv.
They are negotiating with Ukrainian officials in Kiev to send police to the site which is controlled by pro-Russia rebels amid continuing fighting.
Rebels have been accused of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines plane................http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28478941