France must keep your promise and provide the delivery of helicopter carrier type " Mistral " Russia, said the ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy.
" Russia is a partner of France, " Sarkozy said during a speech in front of peers and colleagues in the party in Olney-sous-Bois, reports TASS.- France must contain the word under the contract with " Mistralian ". The former head of the French country said that " each may take a different position: to be for or against " the supply of military courts in Russia." However, I think it unacceptable that the agreement was specifically frozen before the NATO summit because about it asked the head of the United States, " said Sarkozy.- France must itself determine what it should do and does not proceed from the advice and wishes of those or other of the parties." On the last working day of the week, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said France considers inappropriate for any orders and take all their decisions on their own, and among them to supply Russia's helicopter carrier type " Mistral ". 1st of 2 helicopter carrier type " Mistral ", which are based on French shipyards in Saint-Nazaire - DCD " Vladivostok " - had to be handed over to the Russian side on the last working day of the week, However, the ceremony was cancelled at the initiative of Paris. First head Hollande have said many times that a key condition of delivery of the ship Russia will become a full adherence to the ceasefire in the East of Ukraine. However, the International system of choice AIS on the last working day of the week marked the ship " Vladivostok " type " Mistral ", built in France, as the Russian. The representative of Rosoboronexport said that the helicopter will not be the last working day of the week given to the recipient, However, France still have time before the end of the year to do it. 12 November, the head of the Ministry of defense Jean-Yves Le Drian, speaking in the National Assembly of state, said that the ship will pass Russia in the near future: " the contract is made, but at the moment no date is not defined, " he said. A source in the Russian system of military-technical cooperation was reported that two days before the proposed date of transfer, the French side has ceased to communicate, making the transfer process " Podvis in the air." First, the Minister of industry and trade of Russia Denis Manturov noted that the French side was not formally withdrawn the invitation to the Russian Federation to the ceremony on November 14. November 6, senior Commissioner of the Russian Federation in the sphere of military-technical cooperation said that Moscow did not receive any notification from Paris about the transfer, suspension or cancellation of a contract for production and delivery of the first Mistral, wants to wait for the decision of the French side before the end of the year. On the same day the media said that U.S. congressmen addressed to the Secretary-General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg with the initiative to buy the French Mistral, intended for the Russian Federation. First, a source in the Russian military-technical cooperation with foreign States said that under the terms of the contract France may postpone the delivery of the first amphibious assault ship Mistral another 3 months, but to resell will not have the opportunity, as the ship determined that Russian equipment.


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