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| MH17 plane crash: UN demands immediate crash site access | MH17 plane crash: UN demands immediate crash site access |
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| The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution demanding access to the crash site of a passenger plane downed over a rebel-held area in Ukraine. | The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution demanding access to the crash site of a passenger plane downed over a rebel-held area in Ukraine. |
| Pro-Russian separatists earlier allowed bodies from the Malaysia Airlines crash to be taken to the city of Kharkiv and handed over to international experts. | Pro-Russian separatists earlier allowed bodies from the Malaysia Airlines crash to be taken to the city of Kharkiv and handed over to international experts. |
| Western nations say the rebels struck MH17 with a Russian-supplied missile, killing all 298 people on board. | Western nations say the rebels struck MH17 with a Russian-supplied missile, killing all 298 people on board. |
| Meanwhile, the main rebel-held city of Donetsk has seen heavy clashes. | Meanwhile, the main rebel-held city of Donetsk has seen heavy clashes. |
| Eyewitnesses say there is violence near the city's airport and the railway station. | Eyewitnesses say there is violence near the city's airport and the railway station. |
| The fighting in eastern Ukraine erupted in April and is believed to have claimed more than 1,000 lives. | The fighting in eastern Ukraine erupted in April and is believed to have claimed more than 1,000 lives. |
| 'Establish accountability' | |
| The UN resolution, proposed by Australia, calls for a "full, thorough and independent international investigation" into the downing of the plane over Grabove on 17 July. | |
| It also demands that those responsible "be held to account and that all states co-operate fully with efforts to establish accountability". | |
| "We owe it to the victims and their families to determine what happened and who was responsible," Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told the meeting in New York. | |
| All 15 council members, including Russia, voted in favour. | |
| However, Russia's envoy, Vitaly Churkin, warned that the Security Council should avoid jumping to conclusions about the cause of the crash. | |
| British Prime Minister David Cameron earlier said there was strong evidence that pro-Russian separatists shot down the plane with an anti-aircraft system known as Buk. | |
| But Russia denied allegations that it had supplied such missiles or "any other weapons" to the rebels. |