Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin and Ambassador of Malaysia to Ukraine Chuah Teong Ban signed an agreement on deployment of Malaysian personnel in Ukraine to secure the site of the MH17 "Malaysian Airlines" plane crash.
This agreement will enable the Malaysian side, whose 43 citizens perished in the plane crash, to join the international mission to investigate the tragedy, along with representatives of Australia and the Netherlands.
Malaysian personnel will be composed of representatives of the civilian police, which main function is the protection of the crash site.
Signing of agreement with Malaysia is another important step in Ukraine’s efforts to ensure objective and transparent investigation of the tragedy and bringing to justice all those responsible for shooting down the MH17 aircraft.