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Russia has no plans to supply arms to Pak

By Vinay Shukla in Moscow
July 09, 2004 23:21 IST
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Pouring cold water on Pakistan's bid to get arms from Russia, Moscow on Friday said it has no plans to supply weapons to Islamabad.

No concrete plans of defence cooperation with Pakistan were discussed during the talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced while addressing a joint press conference with his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, who arrived in Moscow on Thursday on a three-day visit.

Lavrov also brushed aside Kasuri's contention that the sale of Russian high-performance aircraft to India would create a military imbalance in South Asia, saying that Russia, while involved in military-technical cooperation with India, always keeps in view that it should not create an imbalance in the region.

"Our military-technical cooperation with India is based on the same principle as Pakistan has this type of cooperation with other countries," he said.
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