Putin aide: Iraq will deliver aircraft and armored vehicles hundreds of millions of dollars
Putin aide: Iraq will deliver aircraft and armored vehicles hundreds of millions of dollars
June 2, 2015 18:57
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aide revealed his intention to hand over Iraq planes and weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He said Russian President Vladimir Kogen assistant for military-technical cooperation, that “Russia is looking to supply Iraq with new weapons”.
He pointed out that “most of the varieties of weapons and military equipment to be delivered to Iraq, are firearms and light armored vehicles and aircraft.”
He said Russian presidential aide, in response to him on the question of the journalists on the repayment of weapons that Russia delivered to Iraq value, that “Russia is facing difficulties in the collection of value supplied to Iraq, because of a known sanctions imposed on banks in regards to dealing with Russia, which imposed sanctions United States declares that it helps Iraq in various ways in the fight against terrorism! “.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Moscow had begun to provide such aid, which works to strengthen the Iraqi army, Syria, Egypt and the armed forces of other countries in the region and the capabilities of confronting terrorists. ”
The Iraqi delegation headed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had visited Moscow in 21 of last May and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior officials in his country focused their talks on technical and military support in the field of energy.
The Abadi announced today on the sidelines of the international coalition conference in Paris could not be “given the financial difficulties of Iraq, from the signing of new contracts for the supply of weapons,” pointing out that “the majority of the contracts took place during the reign of the previous government with Russia.”
He pointed out that “Moscow is subject to sanctions by the United States so we find it very difficult to pay to get these weapons, Money in the bank is waiting, but we can not reach it.”
Abadi strongly criticized the international community’s weak support for Iraq, saying that “talk a lot but a few acts on the ground,” returned “progress Daash gangs that he is a failure for the whole world”, urging at the same international community time to “help Iraq in order to buy weapons to fight the terrorists, we We have not received almost nothing, and we depend on ourselves. ”
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