Netherlands ready to send 150 experts to Boeing 777 crash site

World September 12, 2014, 21:09

The final decision on resuming the search mission would be taken after talks with militias scheduled for the weekend

KHARKIV, September 12. /ITAR-TASS/. The Netherlands is ready to send another team of experts to the crash site of the Malaysian Boeing 777 that was allegedly shot down in Ukraine’s conflict-gripped east on July 17, deputy head of Dutch search mission in Ukraine, Hans van der Veen, told the Kharkiv regional governor, Igor Baluta on Friday.

“Holland is forming another team of specialists so that at the moment when a final decision on resuming search operations at the crash site is taken, these people will be able to leave for Ukraine. It will be a large team - about 150 people,” the press service of the Kharkov regional administration quotes Hans van der Veen as saying.

He said that the final decision on resuming the search mission would be taken after talks with militias scheduled for the weekend.

Besides, the sides discussed issues of co-operation and assistance from the Kharkiv administration to the experts of the search mission.

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