(5 Aug 2014) More than 100 recovery experts and OSCE representatives were prevented by pro-Russian separatists from searching the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Tuesday, due to security concerns.
Alexander Hug, Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Ukraine, said the concerns centred over allegations that the entrance to the site has been mined.
"It was not clear whether or not the rebels themselves or anyone else had placed the mines, and we couldn't figure it out ourselves," Hug said.
But he said the teams were able to conduct more research at a field near the site that they had searched on Monday, before being stopped once again "for security reasons."
They were also able to search another two fields before returning to their base at a Donetsk hotel.
Despite the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashing on July 17, the OSCE could only start their recovery operation last week.
The team's top priority is the collection of victims' remains that have been lying out in the open, in the midsummer heat, for more than two weeks.
Recovery has been delayed by the ongoing fighting between pro-Russia separatists and the Ukrainian government in the Donetsk region.
Hug confirmed that the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine will be extended for another six months.


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