By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Ukraine on Friday and is mulling a draft statement calling for "a full, thorough and independent international investigation" into what caused the crash of a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine. The British-drafted statement, reviewed by Reuters, stressed the need for "all parties to grant immediate access by investigators to the crash site to determine the cause of the incident." The Malaysia Airlines jet was carrying 295 people. The Security Council is then due to meet to discuss the situation in Ukraine at 10 a.m. EDT (3:00 p.m. BST) Friday. The draft statement calls for an investigation into the incident in accordance with international civil aviation guidelines and "for appropriate accountability." U.N. political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman is due to brief the council on Friday, said Rwanda's U.N. mission, president of the council for July. Read More http://ift.tt/WloWoq
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