Third MH17 coordination meeting held in the Hague

​National authorities from all involved countries attended a coordination meeting yesterday at Eurojust to discuss progress in the identification and victim information process as well as the criminal investigation into the crash of Flight MH17.

The press service of the European Union's Judicial Cooperation Unit reported.

The meeting was attended by public prosecutors and investigators from the Netherlands, Australia, Ukraine, Belgium and Malaysia, the countries comprising the joint investigation team formed in 2014, as well as from the UK, Germany, the Philippines, Canada, New Zealand, Indonesia and the USA, all of which had citizens who were victims of the crash. Europol also was represented.

Yesterday’s meeting, chaired by Mr Han Moraal, National Member for the Netherlands at Eurojust, is the third meeting held at Eurojust since the crash on July 17, 2014 in Ukraine, in which 298 people died. The first coordination meeting was held on July 28, 2014, and the second on December 4, 2014.