MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council chose to just rubber-stamp the investigation into the 2014 Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash instead of conducting its own objective investigation into the incident, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.
"On June 29, Russia filed a memorandum with the International Court of Justice containing irreversible evidence of the ICAO’s June 30, 2025 decision being unsound, which baselessly blamed our country for the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash. <...> From a procedural standpoint, the ICAO Council, as a political structure, showed extreme bias. The council members aren’t independent justices or arbitrators but merely representatives of ICAO member states; still, they issued a ruling without properly studying the case and evidence," the diplomat noted.
"The Council misused its mandate, particularly demanding that Russia hold talks with Australia and the Netherlands on paying the so-called reparations for the crash. That said, rather than conducting a thorough, comprehensive and independent international investigation into the incident, <...> the ICAO Council limited itself to rubber-stamping the biased investigation carried out by nations unfriendly toward Russia that do not conceal, and even promote, their hostility to Russia. Moscow is confident that the evidence it has presented is sufficient to overturn the ICAO Council’s decision," she emphasized.
