Iraq Receives Six aircraft (MI 35) and enters the service today directly

Iraq Receives Six aircraft (MI 35) and enters the service today directly






 Thu Jun 12 2014 19:08 | (Voice of Iraq) -   Add Comment - long-Presse / Baghdad

 According to a senior source in the Defense Ministry, on Thursday, that the Army Air received six helicopters of the type (mi35), while noting that it will enter service effectively, today,

 The source said in an interview with the (long-Presse), "The leadership of the Army Aviation received, today, six aircraft (mi35) Russian-made within the contract signed with the Russian side on this aircraft."

 The source, who asked not to be named, said: "This aircraft will enter service this day directly."

 The Commission on Security and Defense Council of Representatives of Iraq, revealed in (the third of September 2013), the arrival of the first batch of Russian aircraft during the same month, and confirmed that the General Command of the Armed Forces and the Army Staff "excited" to arm the security services, as pointed out the existence of contracts arming with the United States and other countries will follow.

 The Prime Minister, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, likely in the second of July 2013, Iraq has held for arms deals with the new Russia in the coming period, and confirmed the absence of obstacles on the road to implementation of the arms deal Russia signed in 2012, while detection Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev for agreement the two countries at the opening of the fly line between Baghdad and Moscow and the granting of visas for Iraqi citizens to Russia. "

 Russia had announced during a visit by Maliki to in the ninth of October 2012 that it had signed contracts with Iraq arming juggle value of $ 4.2 billion making it again the largest providers of this state with weapons after the United States.

 The deal drew Russian weapons that were agreed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in principle with the Russian side during his recent visit to Moscow on the 12th of October 2012, the value of four billion and 200 million dollars a political row has had a resonating big in the media over the past months, especially in light of "hottest bickering" between the political blocs, and the exchange of accusations between the relevant parties, and the highest votes of those belonging to the State of Law coalition and the Liberal bloc.

 The controversy erupted on the deal when detecting Ali al-Moussawi, media adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in (X of November 2012), about the recent cancellation of the deal after returning from Moscow following the "suspicions of corruption," noting that al-Maliki planned to be renegotiated.

 And the evolution of the subject of the deal in the Iraqi parliament and then referred to the subject of corruption in which public prosecutors and the Integrity Commission, and remained until Malguet deal Iraq signed the contract officially in 26.03.2013 and after re-negotiations and change the negotiating team.

 It is noteworthy that Iraq is linked to historic ties with Russia, dating back to the forties of the last century, when it was established diplomatic relations between Iraq and the Soviet Union at the time, and Iraq became later of the most important importers of military equipment Soviet, and developed those relationships over the past years, especially in the field of investments in oil and electricity as it won Russian companies in licensing rounds for oil and gas investment in a number of Iraqi provinces.  




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