Western leaders reacted harshly to block Russian resolution on the establishment of the tribunal by the Malaysian “Boeing”. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott called the veto imposed by the Russian Federation “outrageous.” In turn, the Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk after the failure of the resolution in the UN Security Council has threatened Moscow “Plan B».
British Prime Minister David Cameron has accused Russia of obstructing justice in the investigation of the situation of the Malaysian “Boeing.”
So the prime responded to Russia’s veto in the Security Council resolution establishing a tribunal to investigate the circumstances of the tragedy that occurred a year ago, near Donetsk.
No less harsh was the reaction of the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
«The Russian veto in the UN Security Council resolution on the creation of a tribunal to punish those responsible for the destruction of Flight MH-17 is a blatant” – said Abbott.
The Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Bert Koenders told reporters that it “inconceivable that a member of the Security Council prevents justice”. In the same spirit he spoke and official Washington.
The US representative to the United Nations Samantha Power said that Moscow “denies the validity of the” victims of the tragedy “Boeing”. According to the publication The New York Times, Russia’s veto “enraged” the representatives of the countries where they live relatives of the victims in the plane crash.
In the resolution establishing a tribunal of “Boeing” has voted 11 out of 15 members of the UN Security Council, China abstained, Argentina and Venezuela.
The Russian representative in the UN Vitaly Churkin said that Russia’s decision is not a “promotion impunity “, and the tragedy of the plane must be investigated in a criminal case. He also said that Russia “is ready to continue to contribute to the full, independent and impartial investigation into the causes and circumstances of the death of Malaysian airliner.”
The head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Konstantin Kosachev said in his blog that the idea of the tribunal “there is no compliance with the UN Charter, or the investigation is completed and the determination of guilt or the collapse of the judiciary in Ukraine, where the crash occurred and where the idea should be to administer justice. ”
In the history of the United Nations did not have when the tribunal considered a crime similar to the destruction of the aircraft in a combat zone – and this appealed Churkin, listing the cases of destruction Ukrainian air defense of the Russian civil aircraft in 2001, as well as the death of an Iranian airliner by a shot from an American aircraft in 1988. Both cases were unintended.
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed regret that the initiators of the resolution “ignored the” Russian proposal, which called for an international investigation to wait for disaster “Boeing”. “Our persistent explanation of the untimely and counterproductive such a step without precedent in the past, and also long before the completion of the ongoing investigation into the circumstances of the crash, were not accepted”, – stated in the department.
A specialist in the field of international security, political scientist and former diplomat Victor Mizin says that ” Russia’s position is clear to him. ”
«Most likely, it is a reaction to the horrible word” tribunal “, – he explains. – Since consciousness is connected with the crimes of the Milosevic regime and the Nuremberg trials. Russia will be difficult to oppose the West, where the situation is consolidated opinion that the blame for the downed plane lies on Russia. ”
After the Russian Federation refused to vote for a resolution on the establishment of the tribunal, the president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Russia’s veto actually “speaks for itself.” Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Thursday that Kiev with its international partners, “launching a plan B” in relation to the investigation of the situation with “Boeing”, but no details of the plan are not reported.
The head of the Kiev Institute of Global Strategies Vadim Karasev suggests that Ukraine may take a series of ” Humanities and social action. ” For example, to put the draft resolution to the vote the UN General Assembly.
«The decisions of the General Assembly are not binding, but it will be the voice of all the United Nations – said Karasev,” Gazeta.ru “. – Other measures may also be the work of Ukraine with the international partners in the diplomatic isolation of Russia and stimulating supply “multi-million dollar lawsuits” against Russia on the part of the victims’ relatives ».
Kiev, the analyst believes, will also be to initiate a debate on the expansion of the Security Council and UN reform on the eve of the 70th anniversary of this organization: that right, Ukraine has both the country that has a long experience of independent UN membership even as Soviet republic. 
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