A SENIOR Malaysian official has met with relatives of people aboard a missing jetliner to discuss financial aid, as the search entered the 44th day without positive results.
Hamzah Zainuddin, deputy minister for foreign affairs, said the relatives present during the meeting on Sunday in the capital of Kuala Lumpur agreed to submit individual proposals for a financial assistance package.
"We touched on the topic of financial assistance in the meeting this morning, and (the relatives) have decided that they will propose a plan for financial assistance, which will be emailed to us as soon as possible," he said in a statement.
Hamzah, who also the chairman of a committee in charge of dealing with the next of kin, said his team has met with embassies of countries whose citizens were among those aboard the missing plane.
Hamzah said he assigned an emissary to meet with Chinese government officials, whose citizens comprised two-thirds of the 239 people aboard the missing plane, to discuss ways and means to assist the next of kin of passengers from China.
He added he would be going to Beijing soon to meet Chinese officials, to ensure that relations between Malaysia and China "will continue to be strong and unaffected by the MH370 issue".
The Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines jetliner went missing without a trace about an hour after it took off from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8. Malaysia Airlines is a state-run company.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said the disappearance of the plane appeared to be a deliberate act and the aircraft was believed to have been lost in the Indian Ocean.
The Australian-led Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), which coordinates the search operations, said on Sunday the submersible drone Bluefin-21 has completed its seventh underwater mission with "no contacts of interest have been found".
"Bluefin-21 has searched approximately 50 per cent of the focused underwater search area to date," the JACC said in a statement.
Aside from Bluefin-21, up to 11 military aircraft and 12 ships assisted in the search for the missing aircraft.
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