05 China has urged Malaysia to step up its efforts in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared on Saturday. Nearly three days after the jet went missing, an international effort has still not found the planes wreckage. None of the debris and oil slicks spotted in the water so far have proven to be linked to the disappearance. Flight MH370 vanished from radar almost three days ago en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, with 239 people on board. Relatives of the missing passengers have been told to prepare for the worst. China said the Malaysian authorities needed to step up their efforts to find the missing airliner, which had more than 150 Chinese nationals on board. We... have a responsibility to demand and urge the Malaysian side to step up [its] search efforts, start an investigation as soon as possible and provide relevant information to China correctly and in a timely manner, said Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang. Patience appears to be wearing thin in the search for the missing airplane, says the BBCs Celia Hatton in Beijing. Earlier, the Global Times, a prominent Communist Party newspaper, issued a sharply worded editorial arguing there were loopholes in the work of Malaysian airlines and security authorities, noting that until yesterday [Sunday], the Malaysian government could not even ensure accurate information about the [planes] passengers. The Malaysian authorities are attempting to address Chinese concerns - they have reissued a pledge to fly worried family members to Kuala Lumpur so they can be closer to the search efforts, our correspondent adds. But one victims relative - Guo Qishun, whose son-in-law was on the plane - said he did not see the point of flying to Malaysia. We dont want to go to Malaysia now. There is no result from the search operation yet. If we go to Malaysia, we can do nothing but wait, just like what we are doing in Beijing now. If we go to Malaysia, who can we rely on? Most of us dont speak English, he told the Associated Press news agency.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:05:35 +0000
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