Russia appeals global aviation agency’s decision blaming it for downing MH17 over Ukraine in 2014

Russia has filed an attraction to the highest United Nations’ courtroom difficult the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group’s choice that blamed it for taking pictures down Malaysia Airways Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014.

Moscow’s attraction submitted to the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, the U.N. principal judicial organ, contested ICAO’s choice “on all grounds, together with on grounds of jurisdiction, relevant legislation, factual findings and deadly procedural violations,” the Russian Overseas Ministry mentioned in an announcement late Thursday.

In Might, the ICAO’s Council discovered Russia chargeable for taking pictures down the MH17 on July 17, 2014, with the lack of 298 lives, marking the primary time the worldwide aviation physique that represents 193 member states determined a dispute between governments.

The choice adopted the 2016 conclusion by a Dutch-led worldwide investigation that the Amsterdam-to-Kuala Lumpur airliner was shot down from Ukrainian territory held by separatist rebels utilizing a Buk missile system delivered from Russia. Moscow has denied any involvement within the MH17 tragedy.

The Russian Overseas Ministry charged that the Montreal-based world aviation company had failed to hold out a “complete, thorough and unbiased” worldwide probe into the crash and relied as an alternative on the “extremely questionable conclusions” of the legal investigation “carried out beneath the auspices of an get together, the Netherlands, and on the premise of adulterated info that had been largely supplied by one other get together, Ukraine.”

“We hope that the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice will take a wholly neutral stance on this high-profile case,” the ministry mentioned.