CHINA: Malaysia and China vow to continue search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared almost three months ago

Record ID: 858079

  • Title: CHINA: Malaysia and China vow to continue search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared almost three months ago
  • Date: 29th May 2014
  • Summary: MEETING IN SESSION (SOUNDBITE) (English) MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER NAJIB RAZAK, SAYING: "And let me, once again, express our sorrows and condolences for the next of kin and the families involved. And we owe it to them to continue the search, and Malaysia will continue the search, and with China, Australia, the other countries, because this tragic incident, so complex, is unprecedented." CHINESE DELEGATES LISTENING LI LISTENING MEETING IN SESSION LI SPEAKING NAJIB LISTENING CHINESE AND MALAYSIAN FLAGS NAJIB AND LI TOGETHER AT TABLE BEFORE SIGNING CEREMONY NAJIB AND LI SPEAKING MALAYSIAN AND CHINESE DELEGATES ARRIVE AT TABLE FOR SIGNING CEREMONY CHINESE DELEGATE SIGNING AGREEMENT MALAYSIAN DELEGATE SIGNING AGREEMENT AND STANDING MALAYSIAN DELEGATES LOOKING ON MALAYSIAN AND CHINESE DELEGATES TRADING AGREEMENTS AND SHAKING HANDS NAJIB AND LI STANDING CHINESE DELEGATES SIGNING CEREMONY ENDING / LI AND NAJIB WALKING AWAY
  • Embargoed: 13th June 2014 13:00
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  • Location: China
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  • Country: China
  • Topics: Disasters,General,Politics,Transport
  • Reuters ID: LVABWQ21CR8R30H6T1BEUUGO05J9
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  • Story Text: Malaysia and China on Thursday (May 29) vowed to continue the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, which disappeared almost three months ago.
    Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak, is visiting China to mark 40 years of diplomatic ties, and met with Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang.
    The pair attended a welcoming ceremony, a bilateral meeting and a signing ceremony.
    During the meeting, Razak conveyed his condolences to the families of those on board the plane, which disappeared while en route to Beijing.
    "And let me, once again, express our sorrows and condolences for the next of kin and the families involved. And we owe it to them to continue the search, and Malaysia will continue the search, and with China, Australia, the other countries, because this tragic incident, so complex, is unprecedented," said Razak.
    154 passengers on board flight MH370 were Chinese nationals, but Razak will not meet with their families on his first visit to China since the plane disappeared.
    A spokesman for Najib's China delegation told Reuters on Wednesday he could not immediately comment on why there would be no meeting.
    Li Keqiang said China would not give up searching for the plane. He urged Razak to establish a new plan to find MH370, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
    Families of Chinese passengers have expressed frustration about what they see as a lack of transparency from Malaysian authorities on the search for the plane. An unprecedented multi-national search for the jet has so far proved unsuccessful.
    Earlier on Thursday (May 29), Australia said officials remained confident the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is somewhere in southern Indian Ocean despite searchers saying wreckage was not on the seabed in the area they had identified.
    Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared from radar screens on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
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