The Malaysian Government will declare a day of mourning when the first bodies of Malaysian victims in the Flight MH17 tragedy return home, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.
Speaking in Amsterdam, the PM praised the way the Dutch government had arranged for the arrival of the victims’ remains and the ceremony held in the Netherlands last week.
Najib said the Dutch ceremony allowed the people of that country to come together in grief, while also affording the victims and their families the honour and dignity they deserved.
“God willing, we will do the same when the time comes. We will declare the day as a day of mourning for the whole country and I’m hoping to be there to receive the Malaysian bodies when they arrive,” The Star Online quotes him as saying at a dinner he hosted in the Dutch capital last night.
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