#Australian PM Tony Abbott Confronts Russian Vladimir Putin

The Australian PM Tony Abbott has told Vladimir Putin to apologise for Russia’s involvement in shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and pay compensation to families of the 298 victims.

Delivering on his promise to personally confront the Russian President over the air disaster, Mr Abbott today told Mr Putin he should follow the “precedent” set when the United States paid compensation after it accidentally shot down an Iranian civilian aircraft in 1988.

The two leaders held a 15 minute meeting about the MH17 disaster on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ meeting in Beijing.

During the meeting, Mr Abbott told Mr Putin he had evidence that Russia had armed the rebels who shot down the aircraft and killed 38 Australians.

Mr Abbott said his intelligence showed “MH17 was destroyed by a missile from a launcher that had come out of Russia, was fired from inside Eastern Ukraine and then returned to Russia”, his spokeswoman said. Read More; http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/tony-abbott-confronts-vladimir-putin-over-mh17-in-tense-meeting-in-china/story-fnii5s3x-1227119850458