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Putin criticises calls for U.N. tribunal on downing of airliner


    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Dutch prime minister on Thursday that calls for setting up an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of bringing down a Malaysian passenger airliner over Ukraine were counterproductive.

    The Kremlin said in a statement that Putin also told Prime Minister Mark Rutte in a phone call, on the eve of the first anniversary of the incident in which all 298 aboard were killed, that such proposals were premature.

    (Reporting by Polina Devitt; Editing by Timothy Heritage)