Ukraine, UK, Canada, Sweden announce new thanks for repairs over planes crashed by Iran
Ukraine and a trio of other affected countries announced on January 6 that they had suspended a two-year attempt to negotiate with Tehran damages for a passenger plane that was accidentally shot down by the Iranian military in January 2020.
Kiev joined the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada and Sweden, saying that their related coordination group “would now focus on subsequent steps to address this issue in accordance with international law.”
Last month, they told Iran that they had three weeks to regret their refusal to take up the claims.
“Despite our best efforts over the past two years and several attempts to resolve this issue through negotiations, the coordination group has decided that further attempts to negotiate with Iran … are meaningless,” the group said in a statement.
They did not specify what steps they would take to deal with complaints related to the deaths of their citizens among the 176 people killed when Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 was destroyed shortly after take – off from Tehran.
Iran obscured for several days but later said that its Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), a branch of the armed forces, accidentally shot down the Boeing 737 due to technical and human errors with high tensions between Tehran and the United States.
More than 130 of the passengers were connected to Canada. Citizens of Afghanistan, Britain, Iran, Ukraine and Sweden were also killed.
Canada said in June that it found no evidence of an overall shooting down of the plane.
In May, Human Rights Watch accused Iranian security agencies about harassing and abusing the families of the victims in order to “crush the hope of justice”.
A Canadian court last week awarded $ 84 million and interest to the families of six of the victims.