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| A fragment of the BUK missile. Picture: JIT |
Prime minister Mark Rutte is
flying back from a trade mission to India a day early to discuss the new
findings about the downing of flight MH17 with the rest of the cabinet on Friday.
On Thursday, the team in charge of the investigation said that the Buk missile
which hit the passenger plane had come from a unit of the Russian army
stationed in Kursk.
‘This is an important development and so I have decided to
return to the Netherlands, because I want to chair the cabinet meeting at which
this will be discussed,’ Rutte said in a reaction.
The official cabinet
reaction to the new findings will be discussed on Friday morning, but foreign
minister Stef Blok has already said ‘an important piece of the puzzle is in
place’.
The four coalition parties say the issue should now be raised at the
United Nations Security Council. In particular, they hope that Russia will be
reprimanded for failing to cooperate sufficiently with the investigation.
Russia
Russia, meanwhile, has issued a
statement denying all responsibility for the air disaster, in which nearly 300
people died.
‘Not one Russian missile has crossed the border between Russia and
Ukraine,’ Dutch media quoted the Russian ministry of defence as saying.
Piet
Ploeg of the relatives foundation Vliegramp MH17 told broadcaster NOS he now
expects the Dutch government to take action, for example, by taking Russia to
court for complicity in the downing of the plane.
‘Until now, everyone has been
cautious, but now it is being openly said that Russia kept the information
presented today to itself, Ploeg said.
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