Algerian-French-Malian agreement on analysis of black boxes

Foreign Affairs Minister Ramtane Lamamra finalized Thursday with his French and Malian counterparts, Laurent Fabius and Abdoulaye Diop, a tripartite agreement regarding the analysis of the black boxes of Flight AH 5017 and the debris of the Spanish Swiftair's aircraft, chartered by Air Algerie, and which crashed on July 24 while flying from Ouagadougou to Algiers, as well as the identification of the victims’ remains, said the ministry in a communiqué.
This agreement “is based on the prerogatives conferred by the international law to the country  where the accident occurred, i.e. Mali as well as the country whose national airline company used the aircraft, i.e. Algeria and it integrates the scientific and technological capacities of France which has the largest number of nationals among the crash accident,” said the source.
Under this agreement, it was agreed that Mali “wished to assist the competent French authorities in the analysis of the flight’s black boxes and the aircraft’s debris and in the identification of the victims’ remains.”
All the samples which were taken, in collaboration with the expert teams of the various countries, will be analyzed “in French forensic infrastructures with effective and substantial participation of the Algerian forensic experts and other concerned countries,” according the agreement.