KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 — Putrajaya today agreed to a meeting requested by families of those aboard Flight MH370 over the search for the missing plane, but stopped short of saying when it will do so.

The families sought the meeting last week for additional details of the hunt for MH370 that went missing on March 8 with 239 on board, giving Putrajaya until this Wednesday to inform them formally of its decision.

“With regards to the Next of Kin committee, we acknowledge Voice370’s request to meet with Malaysia’s prime minister, the acting transport minister and the chair of the Next of Kin Committee,” Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Jailani Johari said in a statement.

“This meeting will be arranged in due time and we look forward to establish a working template in dealing with issues raised by the Next of Kin.”

Jailani today also reiterated the government’s professed intention to continue engaging the families of those on board MH370 as well as the commitment to keep up the search for signs of the plane that has now been missing for over three months.

Last Friday, a group calling itself Voice370 wrote to Foreign Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin, who heads the Next of Kin committee, to request the meeting as well as assistance for the families during this “difficult” period.

Family members of the crew on board the missing plane recently alleged that they are being neglected by the airline and Malaysian authorities, and the announcement by Australian authorities to call off the first phase of the search only compounded their frustrations.

But Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said subsequently on Wednesday that the families of the 239 passengers and crew aboard the missing jetliner would not be ignored.

Hishammuddin also pledged that the search for the plane will continue for “as long as it takes”.

MH370 disappeared after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8 with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board.

After two months of intensive search, the hunt was scaled back to an undersea operation in the southern Indian Ocean west of Australia that is expected to take between eight to 12 months.