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Syrian envoy says Russia not sending helicopters

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:02 AM
Author: Reuters
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MOSCOW, June 14 (Reuters) - The Syrian ambassador to Moscow said on Thursday that Russia is not supplying Syria's government with attack helicopters.

"Russia is not delivering any helicopters to Syria," Ambassador Riad Haddad told Reuters, speaking two days after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States had information that attack helicopters were on the way from Russia to Syria.

(Reporting by Nastassia Astrasheuskaya; Writing by Thomas Grove; Editing by Steve Gutterman)

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