MOSCOW, September 18. /TASS/. Russia has turned to the International Court of Justice to challenge the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)’s baseless decision on alleged Russian involvement in the 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash, and counts on the UN court’s impartiality, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"In accordance with Article 84 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, on September 18, the Russian Federation challenged the International Civil Aviation Organization’s baseless decision about Russia’s alleged involvement in the crash of the Boeing Malaysia flight MH17 in the International Court of Justice of the United Nations," the ministry said. "We hope that the UN International Court of Justice will show an utmost unbiased approach in this high-profile case."
The ministry said that earlier, in contrast to UN Security Council Resolution 2166, the ICAO Council did not see fit to hold a "full, thorough and independent international investigation into the circumstances of the crash, relying on quite dubious results of a technical and criminal investigation, conducted by an interested party - the Netherlands and based on tampered ‘facts’ provided mostly by another interested party, Ukraine."
