France says warship deal with Russia cancelled under NATO pressure

‘France has admitted that NATO forced it out of a deal on the sale of two Mistral warships to Russia.

“We experienced significant pressure from the East European countries, not to mention the Baltic states, within the NATO Parliamentary Assembly,” said the French Senate’s International Affairs Committee spokesman Robert del Picchia, RT reported on Tuesday.

In July, France canceled the delivery of the helicopter carriers which were ordered by Russia in 2011. On September 23, it announced that the ships were to be sold to Egypt. The first warship, the Vladivostok, and the second, the Sevastopol, were due to be handed over to Moscow in November 2014 and in 2015 respectively.’

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