. Respect victims MH370 , China canceled parade of ships

. Respect victims MH370 , China canceled parade of ships

Chinese Navy canceled the parade of international warships in 2014 , in Qingdao , Shandong Province , China , as a form of respect to the families of passengers on Malaysia Airlines MH370 is still grieving .

Chinese Navy spokesman Liang Yang at the Chinese Defense Ministry website said Wednesday that up to now the plane carrying 239 passengers was still in the search process .

" All the search is still ongoing and it is also a lot of the same families of passengers who are still grieving . Due to the above considerations , the activities of international warships parade of our actions , " he said .

However , continued Liang Yang , for multilateral maritime exercise activities and the Western Pacific Naval Symposium ( WPNS ) will still take place as scheduled .

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 missing since 8 March, carrying 239 passengers , 154 of them are citizens of China , there are also seven Indonesian citizen and 14 other nationality .

Parade of international warships originally scheduled to be held in conjunction with multilateral maritime exercises and WPNS 20-25 April in Qingdao .

KRI Banjarmasin Indonesia included in the parade of international warships , as well as engage in multilateral maritime exercises and WPNS 2014.

Forum WPNS 24 countries consists of 20 permanent members and four observers .

The twenty countries that include Indonesia , Australia , Brunei , China , Malaysia , New Zealand , Papua New Guinea , the Philippines , Singapore , South Korea , Thailand , the United States , Japan , Vietnam , Cambodia , Russia , Tonga , France , Canada , and Chile .

While the four observer countries are India , Bangladesh , Peru , and Mexico .