03/04/2014 10:20
Missing plane MH370: Malaysia PM Najib Razak in Australia
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is visiting Perth, Western Australia, where the search for missing flight MH370 is being co-ordinated, the BBC reported.
Early on Thursday Mr Najib was briefed on operations as he visited the military base from which search aircraft have been flying.
He was to hold talks with Australian PM Tony Abbott later in the day.
The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared on 8 March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It was carrying 239 people.
Planes and ships have been scouring the southern Indian Ocean, where the jet is believed to have crashed.
The focus of the search is a 221,000 sq km (85,000 sq mile) area 1,500km (932 miles) west of Perth.
But so far not a single piece of debris from the Boeing 777 has been found.
Mr Najib met search crews at Pearce RAAF base near Perth on Thursday morning, before their planes left for the day.
"I'm very confident we will indeed show what we can do together as a group of nations; that we want to find answers, that we want to provide comfort to the families and we will not rest until answers are indeed found," he said.
Mr Najib was also expected to visit the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre (JACC) - from where the search is being led - and issue a joint statement after his talks with Mr Abbott.
Malaysian authorities have come in for heavy criticism over their management of the search, especially from relatives of the plane's 153 Chinese passengers.