NEW YORK, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has urged to speed up the victim identification process in the Malaysian Boeing crash.
Some of the MH17 crash victims are still to be identified, the Dutch prime minister said in an address to the UN General Assembly in New York. Mark Rutte stressed they needed to be identified as soon as possible.
The plane crash over Ukraine came as a tremendous shock for the entire nation, he said, adding it affected – either directly or indirectly – every single person in the Netherlands.
Malaysia Airline flight MH17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 people on board. Most of the victims were Dutch.
A preliminary report on the crash was released by the Dutch Safety Board on September 9, stating that the Malaysian aircraft broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from the outside. The full report was said to be released within a year.