Saturday 26 July 2014 16.04 The Australian prime minister has said that human remains are still at the crash site a week after Malaysian Airline flight MH17 came down.
The majority of the 298 people killed when the plane was apparently shot down by a missile were Dutch.
There were also 28 Australian nationals and nine permanent residents on board.
Mr Abbott is sending 190 Australian Federal Police to the Netherlands.
A small number of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel, to participate in a planned Dutch-led operation to secure the crash site.
Australian officials said there are unrecovered body remains in the area.
Mr Abbot said "it's the presence of unrecovered remains that makes it more important than ever that an international team be dispatched to the site."
He was questioned on concerns about sending troops into the volatile situation in Ukraine.
Mr Abbott stressed that Australia's involvement in the planned mission was only to secure the remains and help the investigation.
He said: " our sole concern is to claim our dead and to bring them home."
Mr Abbott said every day the crash site remained unsecured, there was more risk of interference and that bodies would deteriorate due to their exposure to the elements.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has said he will meet Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte next week.
They will discuss how to secure full access for investigators to the site in Ukraine where a Malaysian airliner was downed.
A statement issued by his office said Mr Najib would fly to the Netherlands to discuss the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17.
They will also discuss the deployment of 30 investigators it said were needed to conduct a full investigation.
Mr Najib said pro-Russian rebels in control of the site had fulfilled two conditions in a deal reached with Malaysia.
The deal was to return the bodies of the victims and the aircraft's two "black boxes", but a full investigation is yet to take place.
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