The French authorities are not willing to change its decision on the issue of supply of helicopter carrier type " Mistral ", said a source in the foreign Ministry of France.
" the leader Francois Hollande has made it clear that decides at the end of October depending on the development of the situation in Ukraine. This position remains unchanged " - quoted by ITAR-TASS message diplomatic source. As stated before, Russia is hoping that the act of handing over France's first helicopter carrier Mistral will be signed at the end of October - beginning of November. Above the head of the Ministry of industry and trade Denis Manturov said that the Russian Federation is hoping that Paris will put Mistral in time, to the same 1st, As planned, will arrive in the fall. However, on September 22, Deputy official envoy of the French foreign Ministry Alexander Giorgini said that now the transfer of the Russian side of the first landing ship type " Mistral " is impossible. At the same time the representative of the Foreign Ministry was left with no response to the request to comment on the words of the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, threatened to " get the poop " built from the ship, if the French decide to keep him. on 4 September the head of the French Republic Francois Hollande said that the agreement with Russia on the supply of Mistrale " not broken and is not suspended, but its implementation will be based on events coming weeks. The contract for the development of 2 helicopter carrier is 1, 66 billion dollars and allows France to provide work for about a thousand people. Despite this, foreign Minister Laurent Fabius admitted that a contract for the sale of vessels has the ability to be terminated.

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