WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- The Senate is expected to confirm on Monday the long-delayed nomination of Michael Lawson to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations' aviation regulatory and investigative body.
The International Civil Aviation Organization, which establishes international regulations for commercial and civil flight, investigated a 1983 incident in which a Korean Air Lines flight was shot down by the Soviet Union. The Ukrainian foreign minister has called for its involvement in the investigation of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that was shot down, allegedly by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, last Thursday.