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Today we are all Malaysians: ICTP Chairman issues statement

Friday, July 18th 2014 - 08:27 UTC
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”The World travel and tourism industry must come together and take leadership after the Malaysia Airlines (MH17) incident.” This is the opinion voiced by Juergen Thomas Steinmetz, Chairman of the International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP). Read full article

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  • ChrisR

    Ten out of ten to Steirmetz's for his attempt at calming future travellers worries about the risks of flying in a war zone.

    The real loss to the world are “the group of a 100+ were international experts on AIDS on a way to a conference in Australia,”. Let us hope they have competent subordinates to take over from them, hopefully seamlessly in the fight against this world-wide scourge.

    Jul 18th, 2014 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    I heard that this morning. What a huge loss in the arena of medical research.

    Now I heard the rebels have both black boxes.......telemetry and voice recorders.

    Jul 18th, 2014 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • aussiesunshinee

    The Nobl Prize winner for peace has just endorsed Israel´s attack on PAlestine and the killing of women and children.......Hypocrite!!!

    Jul 19th, 2014 - 12:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Twice in as many months,
    our sympathies go out to all of them..

    Jul 19th, 2014 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • aussiesunshinee

    *4 I second the motion.....

    Jul 20th, 2014 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    @1 good point ChrisR

    Jul 20th, 2014 - 01:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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