World media commend PM for brokering deal with separatists


PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s successful brokering of a deal, which saw the Ukrainian separatists handing over the black boxes and remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 victims, came in for praise from the international media.

The New York Times, in a report Monday, said the Malaysian Prime Minister had “apparently achieved what pressure from far more powerful nations had failed to accomplish”.

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