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Both the Ukrainian government and rebels have denied downing the plane
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are to give international investigators access to the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet.
The rebels vowed to secure the site and allow the recovery of bodies, the Organization for the Security and Co-operation in Europe said.
The plane, carrying 298 people, crashed in rebel-held territory on Thursday.
The two sides in Ukraine's civil conflict have accused each other of shooting the jet down with a missile.
The Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. It fell between Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in the neighbouring region of Donetsk.
Latest figures released by Malaysia Airlines show the plane was carrying at least 173 Dutch nationals, 27 Australians, 44 Malaysians (including 15 crew), 12 Indonesians and nine Britons.
Other passengers came from Germany, Belgium, the Philippines and Canada. The dead include world-renowned Dutch researcher Joep Lange who was among a number of passengers en route to an international Aids conference in Australia.
It is the second disaster suffered by Malaysia Airlines this year. Flight MH370 disappeared en route from Malaysia to China in March and has still not been found.
The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting on the plane disaster on Friday in New York.
Confirmed death toll so far- Netherlands: 173
- Malaysia: 44 (including 15 crew)
- Indonesia: 12
- UK: 9
- Germany: 4
- Belgium: 4
- Philippines: 3
- Canada: 1
- New Zealand: 1
- Romania: 1
MH17 crash brings Ukraine conflict 'to West's door'
'Catastrophe'The OSCE announced that 30 members of its Ukrainian monitoring mission were expected to arrive at the plane crash site later on Friday.
It said the separatists had pledged to provide "safe access" and co-operate with Ukrainian authorities.
Ukraine has declared the area a no-fly zone, while other airlines have announced they are now setting flight paths to avoid eastern Ukraine.
However, separatist leader Alexander Borodai has rejected international calls for a truce, as fighting continues between the rebels and Ukrainian forces.
"There is no question of a ceasefire but we will let experts access the site of the catastrophe," he said.
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Recordings purport to show pro-Russian separatists talking about the downing of a civilian plane
Mr Borodai also denied reports that black box flight recorders of MH17 had been recovered from the crash site.
The Interfax-Ukraine news agency earlier said that the rebels had found one of the black boxes and handed it over to Moscow.
US and Ukrainian officials said they believed the plane had been brought down by a missile - a Buk thought to have been used by the rebels in Ukraine before.
The separatists were said to have seized the Buk after overrunning a Ukrainian military base.
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Barry and Izzy Sim: "We were supposed to be on flight"
However, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema has cast doubt on this, telling local media on Friday: "The military told the president after the passenger plane had been shot down that the terrorists did not possess our Buk missile systems."
Ukraine has called the disaster an "act of terrorism", blaming it on Russia who it says has been aiding the rebels in the conflict and supplying them with advanced weapons.
"The Russians are done for. This is an international crime which must be investigated by the international tribunal in The Hague," Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
Ukrainian authorities have released what they say are intercepted phone conversations that proved the plane was shot down by pro-Russian separatists.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed the Ukraine government for restarting military operations in the area, where it is trying to regain control from pro-Russian rebels.
"The country in whose airspace this happened bears responsibility for it," he said.
Russia has called for a "thorough and unbiased" investigation, adding that the tragedy also highlighted a need for a swift end to the Ukrainian conflict.
Buk surface-to-air missile systemAlso known as SA-11 Gadfly (or newer SA-17 Grizzly)
Russian-made, mobile, medium range system
Weapons: Four surface-to-air missiles
Missile speed (max): Mach 3
Target altitude (max): 22,000 metres (72,000ft)
Source: Global Security
Rebels have accused the Ukrainian government of downing the airliner.
But Ukraine's defence ministry said there were no Air Force jets in the area and no surface-to-air systems being used against the rebels.
Earlier on Thursday, Ukrainian officials blamed the Russian Air Force for shooting down one of its ground attack jets on Wednesday, and a transport plane on Monday.
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