Ukraine expects from Iran full information on UIA plane crash by October – Kuleba
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said this during a phone conversation with Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported.
The parties discussed the results of the first round of negotiations on compensation to the families of the crash victims, which took place in Kyiv on July 30.
“The Ukrainian foreign minister stressed that at the next round of talks in October, Ukraine expects to receive from the Iranian side all the necessary information about the circumstances of the plane crash. According to him, after establishing all the facts, it will be possible to start calculating the amount of compensation,” the report reads.
The ministers agreed that the meeting in October should be fruitful, and both sides will work to achieve this goal.
The two ministers noted that the tragedy of the Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 crash has become a painful and sensitive topic for the peoples of their countries, as well as for the societies of other affected countries.
On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 was shot down near Tehran by an Iranian surface-to-air missile, killing 176 people, including nine crew members (all Ukrainians) and 167 passengers (citizens of Ukraine, Iran, Canada, Sweden, Afghanistan, Germany, and the UK).
On July 18, France's Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority (BEA) received Flight PS752’s recorders from Iran.
On July 24, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Yevhenii Yenin informed that the transcript from Flight PS752’s recorders had confirmed illegal interference with the plane.
On July 30, Iran’s delegation arrived in Kyiv to participate in talks on compensation for the downing of UIA flight PS752.
On July 31, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine informed that the next round of Ukraine-Iran talks on the investigation into PS752 flight crash was scheduled for October.
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