Hargeisa(Wajaalenews0 ;The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution demanding access to the crash site of a passenger plane downed over a rebel-held area in Ukraine.

Pro-Russian separatists earlier allowed bodies from the Malaysia Airlines crash to be taken to the city of Kharkiv and handed over to international experts.

Western nations say the rebels struck MH17 with a Russian-supplied missile, killing all 298 people on board.

Eyewitnesses say there is violence near the city’s airport and the railway station.

The fighting in eastern Ukraine erupted in April and is believed to have claimed more than 1,000 lives.

It also demands that those responsible “be held to account and that all states co-operate fully with efforts to establish accountability”.

Many of the bodies had been exposed to summer heat

In Rotterdam, friends of two restaurant owners who were on Flight MH17, took part in a silent march

“We owe it to the victims and their families to determine what happened and who was responsible,” Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told the meeting in New York.

All 15 council members, including Russia, voted in favour.

However, Russia’s envoy, Vitaly Churkin, warned that the Security Council should avoid jumping to conclusions about the cause of the crash.

British Prime Minister David Cameron earlier said there was strong evidence that pro-Russian separatists shot down the plane with an anti-aircraft system known as Buk.

But Russia denied allegations that it had supplied such missiles or “any other weapons” to the rebels.