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Sunday, August 14, 2011

U.S. seeking to deprive Syria of Russian weapons

K300P Bastion-P mobile coastal defence missile systemU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Russia to stop supplying arms to Syria. "We want to see Russia cease selling arms to the Assad regime," she said in a recent interview with the television network CBS.

The export of Russian weapons to Iran and Libya has already been suspended, and now officials in Washington are raising the issue of Russia's arms sales to Syria.

This is an extremely sensitive issue, even for such an inherently sensitive sector as military and technical cooperation. The business interests of Russian arms manufacturers and the Russian leadership's complex Middle East policy run up against the hard line of Israel and the United States.

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