KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 ― Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai gave his guarantee today that the search for MH370 will continue as he prepares to meet with his Chinese and Australian counterparts soon.

The Bentong MP said he will be meeting with the Chinese transport minister next week, and later the Australian authorities in early August.

“This incident is a mystery that we must solve together not only by Malaysia, but we are getting support from China, Australia and 26 other nations to solve this issue.

“I will push off to China next week to discuss with the transport minister Mr Yang and after that early August I will depart for Australia to meet with August Hudson and the transport minister on how Australia, China and Malaysia can remain committed to search for the MH370 plane,” he told reporters here.

Liow added that search efforts are still ongoing, noting that Malaysia had sent more assets to Australia yesterday to help with the operations.

Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said this week that the Malaysian Navy will send one of its ships equipped with deep-sea survey equipment and that two commercial ships with sonar-equipped submarines will also be deployed.

These will join the Malaysian ship, Bunga Mas 6 (BM6), which has already been part of the search since April 20.

Hishammuddin continues to oversee the Malaysia’s search for the missing Boeing 777 despite relinquishing the transport portfolio, which he had held in interim, to Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai last week.

Beijing-bound Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radars on March 8, slightly more than an hour after departing from Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Malaysian authorities said radar data indicated that the plane with 239 people on board had diverted from its intended path and headed towards the southern Indian Ocean, which is where the Boeing 777 is believed to have ended its flight.

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.

Putrajaya and MAS have been heavily criticised domestically and abroad for their handling of the disaster, with critics pointing to the government’s slow response and lack of coordination in the search and rescue operations.

The plane’s disappearance has been touted as civil aviation’s greatest mystery.