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Russia says will not take "black boxes" from airliner downed in Ukraine

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Russia does not plan to take the "black box" flight recorders from a Malaysian airliner downed in territory held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

"Despite what Kiev is again saying, we do not plan to take these (black) boxes. We do not plan to violate existing (international) norms for such situations," Lavrov said in an interview with Russian state television.

"We want international experts to get to the site of the crash as soon as possible so that they get the black boxes right away."

Earlier, Ukraine's emergency services found two black boxes at the crash site of a Malaysian airliner, Interfax-Ukraine quoted an adviser to the governor of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region.

"Two black boxes were found by our emergency services. I have no information on where these boxes are at the moment,"  Kostyantyn Batovsky was quoted as saying. A spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry in Kiev declined to comment on the report.

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