No
Russian Arms Supplies to Syria ‘Until Stabilization’
Russia
will not deliver any new types of weapons or sign any military
contracts with Syria until the situation there stabilizes, Vyacheslav
Dzirkaln, deputy head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical
Cooperation, said on Monday.
9
July, 2012
“Russia,
as well as other countries, is concerned by the situation in Syria,”
he said. “We are not talking about new arms supplies to that
country.”
“Until
the situation stabilizes we will not deliver any new weapons [to
Syria].”
He
said in particular that Russia will not supply Yak-130 combat
training aircraft to Syria until the situation there settles down.
Russia
has signed a $550-million contract with Syria for the delivery of 36
Yak-130s.
He
said Libya has requested delivery of Russian spare parts for the arms
and military equipment supplied previously.
“We
are in contact with Libya’s new structures,” he said. “We are
currently in consultation.”
The
UN estimated in May that some 10,000 people have been killed in Syria
since the beginning of a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad in
March 2011. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based
organization with a network of activists in Syria, revised the death
toll to 16,500 on Monday. Of those, some 5,000 were government troops
and army defectors, the group said. June had been the bloodiest month
of the conflict so far, with around 100 deaths every day, it said.
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