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President Petro Poroshenko has signed the law on the ratification of the Agreement (in the form of the exchange of notes) between Ukraine and the Netherlands on prolongation of the effect of the Agreement between Ukraine and Netherlands on the International Mission to protect investigation of July 28, 2014 until August 1, 2018, according to the presidential administration.
The parties agreed in 2014 to create a multinational International Mission to protect investigation of the MH17 tragedy and concluded the relevant Agreement, it said.
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The Law comes into force on the day of publication.
UNIAN memo. Malaysia Airlines' MH17 Boeing 777 heading from Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur was shot down on July 17, 2014, over militant-occupied territory in Donetsk region. All 298 people on board who were citizens of 10 countries were killed in the crash. The majority of the victims, 196, were citizens of the Netherlands. The Dutch Safety Board October 13, 2015, issued a report on the causes of the accident. It was revealed that the plane had been shot down by a Buk anti-aircraft missile system. The Joint Investigation Team in its report published on September 28, 2016, confirmed that the plane had been downed by a Russian-made Buk brought to Ukraine from Russia. No suspects have been named, though Dutch Chief Prosecutor Fred Westerbeke said last year his office has identified 100 "persons of interest" in the investigation, including those who organized the arrival of the rocket and oversaw its transportation from Russia to Ukraine and back.