Ukraine to press for plane crash black boxes as Iran minister visits

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Ukraine to press for plane crash black boxes as Iran minister visits
January 20, 2020, 9:37 am

Ukraine to press for plane crash black boxes as Iran minister visits

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko at a press conference in Berlin on December 20, 2019. (File photo AFP)

Ukraine will press Iran to hand over the black boxes from the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane at a meeting with a visiting Iranian delegation on Monday, Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko told reporters.

Ukraine would convey the message to visiting Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami, that returning the black boxes would show that Iran wanted an unbiased investigation of the crash, Prystaiko said.

Iran had said on Sunday it was trying to analyze the black boxes from the airliner its military shot down this month, denying an earlier report it would hand them to Ukraine. All 176 aboard the flight died.

source: Reuters

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