World Media Commend PM for Brokering Deal With Separatists
PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s successful brokering of a deal, which saw the Ukrainian separatists handing over the black boxes and remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 victims, came in for praise from the international media.
The New York Times, in a report Monday, said the Malaysian Prime Minister had “apparently achieved what pressure from far more powerful nations had failed to accomplish”.
The report follows Najib’s announcement that the country had reached an agreement with the Ukrainian rebels for custody of the black boxes and access to the MH17 crash site.
Najib said he had spoken to rebel leader Alexander Borodai, who is in command of the region where the tragedy occurred, earlier on Monday evening.
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The article goes on to say that Malaysia’s PM avoided blaming anyone publicly for the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner, for which he took some heat in his native country. But by being circumspect, he succeeded where more confrontational national leaders failed.