NEW DELHI, Aug 11 — India has called for a broad-based international investigation on the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 tragedy.
“The senseless loss of lives in the crash of MH17 on July 17 has left the international community with the responsibility to ensure safety of civil aviation,” said India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Parties in conflict situations must urgently abjure violence and work for a diplomatic solution, she said in her address at the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, on Sunday.
The text of her speech text was made available on the ministry’s website. “We must ensure that such a tragedy is never repeated,” she said.
Flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17 as it was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. The Boeing 777-200 aircraft is believed to have been shot down over the troubled country.
Besides Malaysians, nationals from the Netherlands, Australia, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Philippines, Canada and New Zealand were among the passengers and crew on board.
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