PM: Govt will fully cooperate if MH370 search yields results

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has assured that the government will provide full cooperation if efforts to locate Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 yield results.

He emphasised the importance of balancing the need to search for the aircraft with ensuring the most prudent use of public funds.

“More than a decade after the aircraft vanished from radar, many questions and mysteries remain unresolved.

“Not only the families and next of kin but the public also deserve answers. Therefore, the government will extend its full cooperation should the search achieve the long-awaited breakthrough,” he said on Facebook today.

Last Friday, Transport Minister Anthony Loke announced that on Dec 13, the cabinet had agreed in principle to accept an offer from marine robotics company Ocean Infinity to resume the search for the wreckage.

He stated that the deep-sea search would focus on a new location, with an estimated span of 15,000sqkm in the southern Indian Ocean, under a "no find, no fee" agreement, meaning the government would not incur any costs if the wreckage is not found.

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

- Bernama

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