Kerry tells Russia's Lavrov investigators must get access to Ukraine crash site

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday, stressed that investigators must get full access to the site in eastern Ukraine where a Malaysian airliner was shot down. The State Department said Kerry told Lavrov the United States is "very concerned" over reports that the remains of victims and debris from the site of Thursday's crash, which is under the control of pro-Moscow separatist rebels, have been removed or tampered with. Kerry said Washington was also concerned over the denial of "proper access" to the crash site for international investigators and monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a State Department statement said. "We urge Russia to honour its commitments and to publicly call on the separatists to do the same." In an earlier account of the phone call, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Lavrov and Kerry had agreed that all evidence from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, including flight recorders, should be made available for an international investigation and that experts should be given access to work on the site. Read More http://ift.tt/1tknkWu