{"id":439823,"date":"2025-09-21T01:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/439823\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:30:31","slug":"russia-appeals-global-aviation-agencys-decision-blaming-it-for-downing-mh17-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/439823\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia appeals global aviation agency&#8217;s decision blaming it for downing MH17 in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MOSCOW &#8212; Russia has filed an appeal to the top United Nations&#8217; court challenging the International Civil Aviation Organization&#8217;s decision that blamed it for shooting down <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-russia-government-donetsk-netherlands-business-443d74853abceb3c9eab7770c7a1a6d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malaysia Airlines Flight 17<\/a> over Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Moscow&#8217;s appeal submitted to the International Court of Justice, the U.N. main judicial organ, contested ICAO&#8217;s decision \u201con all grounds, including on grounds of jurisdiction, applicable law, factual findings and fatal procedural violations,\u201d the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In May, the ICAO&#8217;s Council found Russia responsible for shooting down the MH17 on July 17, 2014, with the loss of 298 lives, marking the first time the global aviation body that represents 193 member states decided a dispute between governments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The decision followed the 2016 conclusion by a Dutch-led international investigation that the Amsterdam-to-Kuala Lumpur airliner was shot down from Ukrainian territory held by separatist rebels using a Buk missile system delivered from Russia. Moscow has denied any involvement in the MH17 tragedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Russian Foreign Ministry charged that the Montreal-based global aviation agency had failed to carry out a \u201ccomprehensive, thorough and independent\u201d international probe into the crash and relied instead on the \u201chighly questionable conclusions\u201d of the criminal investigation \u201ccarried out under the auspices of an interested party, the Netherlands, and on the basis of adulterated facts that were mostly provided by another interested party, Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">\u201cWe hope that the International Court of Justice will take an entirely impartial stance on this high-profile case,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW &#8212; Russia has filed an appeal to the top United Nations&#8217; court challenging the International Civil Aviation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[148838,3907,30,2000,299,4179,7136,285,657,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-439823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-148838","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-legal-proceedings","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115239703310282683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}