Russia accuses the United States of being behind the cancellation of Iraq arms deal

Russia accuses the United States of being behind the cancellation of Iraq to the arms deal with it

Saturday November 10, 2012

Follow-up – and babysit – Russia accused the United States of America of being behind the cancellation of the arms deal it signed with Iraq.
An official source in the Russian military-industrial complex that the cancellation of Iraq (already) arms deal concluded with Russia is the result of U.S. pressure on the Iraqi authorities.

The news agency “RIA Novosti” Russian news agency official as saying that “behind Iraq’s refusal to implement contracts to import Russian weapons stands by U.S. authorities seeking to disallow the application of Russian-Iraqi agreements in the field of armaments.”

This has been issued so far for the Russian side no official comment on the subject.

The press service of the Russian government has reported on the occasion of the visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Russia last month that Iraq and Russia signed during the second half of the current year a number of contracts in the field of military-technical cooperation worth more than $ 4.2 billion.

M. J

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