MH17 trial: JIT’s new composition holds its first meeting
"On March 8, 2020, the JIT held the first meeting of its new composition in Amsterdam after the documents on the continuation of the JIT’s work and changes in its composition had been signed. All parties expressed their full readiness to cooperate," the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reports.
As noted, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Giunduz Mamedov, who now heads Ukrainian group of the JIT, assured that this case was one of the key priorities in the activities of Ukrainian prosecutor’s agencies.
JIT representatives agreed on further steps in their work and also discussed the trial that begins at the Schiphol Judicial Complex on March 9.
The composition of the Ukrainian delegation at the trial became known. As hromadske reported referring to Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department for International Law Oksana Zolotariova, the Ukrainian delegation consists of representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office (Deputy Prosecutor General Giunduz Mamedov, Deputy Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands Vsevolod Chentsov and Oksana Zolotariova.
"The Netherlands Public Prosecutor's Office will present the position of the prosecution. The rest will provide the maximum moral support," Zolotariova added.
As reported, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Belgium, Malaysia and Australia formally notified the UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN Security Council of the start of the MH17criminal trial in the Netherlands on March 9.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down over conflict-hit Donbas in July 2014. There were 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board. All of them died. The JIT reported that the plane had been shot down from a Buk missile system that belongs to the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces stationed in Kursk.
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