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CARACAS, Wednesday July 26, 2006 | Update
Russia guarantees weapon sales to Venezuela
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Russian Defense minister Serguei Ivanov Wednesday said his
country is to meet agreements to sell warplanes and helicopters
to Venezuela, thus rejecting US calls to reconsider such sales,
AFP reported.
"Review of the agreements is absolutely ruled out," Ivanov
stated, as quoted by Russian news agencies.
Washington wants Russia to reconsider arm sales to President
Hugo Chávez, who is initialing in Moscow a number of
pacts to purchase Russian warplanes, Tuesday said the US State
Department Assistant Spokesman Tom Casey.
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04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."
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