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Putin says \\\'all the right things\\\' to Australian PM over MH17

Monday, 21 July 2014


Russian President Vladimir Putin said ‘all the right things’ in a call with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who Monday demanded he back his words with action over Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The two leaders spoke overnight in their first conversation since the plane, carrying 298 people, crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, apparently shot down by pro-Russian rebels with a surface-to-air missile. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, British counterpart David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande also piled pressure on Putin over the weekend in phone calls. ‘I am not going to have this conversation and say 'well, that's nice, President Putin said everything will work out fine' and just accept that, according to AFP.