The French foreign Ministry opposed the transfer of the first Russian ship type " Mistral " - this position has been Deputy official envoy of the French foreign Ministry Alexander Giorgini. Today the ship has completed the initial phase of sea trials, back in the French port of Saint-Nazaire. The diplomat recalled the statement of the President of the French Republic, fran?ois Hollande, on 18 September, in which he said that the deal for the supply of helicopter carrier will be executed only if a successful political settlement in Ukraine. Giorgini showed that under the current circumstances, the delivery of Mistrale ", scheduled for October, is impossible.

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