U.S. Revises Comments on Russian Helicopters Going to Syria

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23:17 14/06/2012 | WASHINGTON, June 14 (RIA Novosti)



The State Department on Thursday acknowledged that the Russian helicopters Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton earlier claimed would “escalate quite dramatically” the Syrian conflict were actually
returning to Syria after being refurbished.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. is nevertheless concerned that the
helicopters will be used by President Bashar Assad's regime to kill civilians.

“We are not delivering to Syria, or anywhere else, items that could be used against peaceful
demonstrators,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov went on. “In this we differ from the United
States, which regularly delivers riot control equipment to the region, including a recent delivery to
a Persian Gulf country. But for some reason the Americans consider this to be fine," Lavrov said.

In another escalation of tension in Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero says France is
ready to supply communications equipment to the Syrian opposition and to individuals and is ready
to make the shipments on its own.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius earlier said that France could follow the example of the U.S. and
deliver "communications gear", to the opposition in Syria.

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