Senator Titus Corlatean, member of the Romanian Parliament’s Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), on Friday welcomed the ruling of the District Court in The Hague regarding the shooting down, in 2014, of the Malaysia Airlines passenger flight MH17, according to Agerpres.

Corlatean served as PACE rapporteur on accountability for the downing of the passenger plane MH17. The relevant PACE Resolution 2452 (2022) was adopted in June 2022.

The Hague Court’s ruling establishes the State responsibility of the Russian Federation under the European Convention on Human Rights and other international conventions, for the downing over eastern Ukraine, on July 17, 2014, of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Also, the Dutch judges sentenced two Russian citizens and one Ukrainian citizen to life imprisonment.

In view of the intense and continuous suffering of the victims’ relatives in the eight years that have passed since this aviation tragedy, the PACE Resolution on this subject recommended the European Court of Human Rights to grant priority to the applications filed by the victims’ next of kin.

According to the Romanian rapporteur, the verdict of the Dutch court does justice to the victims of this air tragedy and brings consolation to their relatives and friends whose pain was amplified by the immoral attitude of the Russian authorities, who tried to conceal the truth and propagate alternative rhetoric based on false evidence, states a Senate release.

The report and the resolution proposed by rapporteur Titus Corlatean were unanimously adopted by the PACE plenary, during the third part of the PACE Ordinary Session (Strasbourg, June 20 – 24, 2022), in the presence of His Majesty Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, and the representatives of the families of the victims of the plane crash in eastern Ukraine.

Agerpres