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Malaysia, China, Aust to meet on MH370

Representatives from Malaysia, China and Australia will meet on July 19 to discuss the next step in the search for missing Flight MH370.

Government ministers from Malaysia, Australia and China will meet in Kuala Lumpur on July 19 to discuss the future of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Six Australians and 153 Chinese nationals were on board.

A wing part, known as a flaperon, washed up on the French island of Reunion in July 2015 followed by other debris found off South Africa and Mozambique, consistent with drift patterns, experts say.

An underwater search operation for the aircraft, which disappeared two years ago, is under way, spanning 120,000 square kilometres of the southern Indian Ocean.

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the meeting would focus what to do once the search of the designated area is completed.

"We (Australia, China and Malaysia) will not call off the search. We are committed to completing the 120,000 sq km search - so far, we have completed 107,000 sq km.

"We will make an announcement on the way forward," Liow was quoted as saying by Malaysian state news agency Bernama on Friday.

The search, which was originally scheduled to end in June, had been hampered by bad weather,.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau had previously said the three countries had agreed not to extend the search beyond 120,000 sq km.


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