France moves the delivery of the first ship of type " Mistral ", but until not beyond the powers of the agreement, said on the last working day of the week a high-ranking source in the sphere of military-technical cooperation of Russia.
" France incessantly moves to the right time of transmission of the first Mistral, explaining This is a purely technical reasons as allowed under the contract. As long as we agree with it ", - quotes the source expression RIA " Novosti ". At the same time the official representative of Rosoboronexport Vyacheslav Davidenko said that the Russian Federation is strictly and timely perform its contractual obligations." This applies to both the supply of fodder parts of the ship and payments, " said Davydenko. Remember, the recent phrase of the French Ministry of defence Jean-Yves Le Drian on the relationship Between the supply of helicopter carrier type " Mistral " and the situation in Ukraine has caused confusion in the Russian capital. Then the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich said that the French side it's time to stop doing business method " megatonnes diplomacy " with the use of media and should be Solved with the supply of Mistrale " in the Russian Federation. 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.

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