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A Nepalese human rights activist holds a placard during a protest rally against the human rights violation in Syria, organized by the Amnesty International outside the United Nations office in Katmandu today AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
Syria

Russia denies sending attack helicopters to Syria

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed that Russia is providing Syria with weapons that will “escalate the conflict quite dramatically”.

RUSSIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER has rejected a US claim that Moscow is sending attack helicopters to Syria.

According to Russian news agencies Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has denied a claim by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that “there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria”.

Lavrov said during a visit to Iran that Russia is completing earlier weapons contracts with Syria exclusively for air defense systems.

Clinton said  yesterday that the shipment “will escalate the conflict quite dramatically”.

Lavrov says that Russia isn’t providing Syria with weapons that can be used against peaceful demonstrators.

Russia, along with China, has shielded Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime from international sanctions over its violent crackdown on protesters in which more than 13,000 people have died, according to opposition groups.

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