Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaking today at a news conference in Canberra about the deployment Australian police to the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines passenger jet in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine:
"Today I announce that the Australian Federal Police will be deployed to the site as part of an unarmed Dutch-led international humanitarian mission. Today there should be 49 on site, of whom 11 will be Australian, and I expect that there will be considerably more on site in coming days."
"Our objective is principally to recover the bodies. That is what the Australian people expect of us, that is what grieving families around the world deserve. Our intention, under the auspices of local people, is to take over the site to ensure the recovery of remains can go ahead as swiftly and as effectively as possible."
"Our objective is to get in, get cracking and get out -- that's our objective. This is a risky mission, no doubt about that. But all the professional advice I have is that the safest way to conduct it is unarmed, as part of a police-led humanitarian mission."
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The interview isn't available yet on CNN's site. Coming soon, we hope. But here's Klimkin's reaction: