Canada welcomes UN body’s decision holding Russia responsible for MH17 tragedy [Video]

People walk amongst the debris at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine, on July 17, 2014. Two-hundred-ninety-eight people were killed as a Soviet-era Buk surface-to-air rocket launched from territory in eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian rebels destroyed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

The Canadian government is welcoming a recent decision by the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization to hold Russia responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.

The plane was shot down on July 17, 2014, over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, including one Canadian.

Global Affairs Canada says the UN body has found Russia breached an obligation not to use weapons against a civil aircraft in flight under the Convention on International Civil Aviation, also known as the Chicago Convention.

A Dutch-led investigation concluded in 2016 that the Amsterdam-to-Kuala Lumpur airliner was …

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