Mistral non-delivered: Russia claims nearly 1.2 billion euros … – TF1

Paris and Moscow are struggling to agree on the Mistral ships selling cancellation policy for Russian , a file that poisons their relationship for months. According to Russian press, Russian authorities consider the amount of reimbursement proposed by the insufficient France. According to the Russian daily Kommersant, Paris is ready to pay in Moscow nearly 785 million euros of advances already paid, once the Russian authorities had agreed in writing that the two Mistral warships may be resold by France a third party.
Kremlin considers, however, the damage suffered by Russia at nearly 1,163 billion euros and refuses any agreement for re-export of ships before money can be made, according to Kommersant . Moscow points in particular to the amounts spent on the training of 400 sailors who were to form the crew, infrastructure construction in Vladivostok, which should be based on the first Mistral, and manufacture of four combat helicopters.

An agreement by the end of May?
“The redemption proposal made by France does not suit us categorically, what the vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told “the French side, said a Russian source. “The amicable discussions are underway on the conditions of the contract and the future,” says a French diplomatic source. According to a deputy director of the Russian service of military and technical cooperation, the two countries are conducting consultations and expect to reach an agreement before the end of May.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov declined Friday to comment on the battle of numbers between Paris and Moscow, reiterating the statements of Vladimir Putin: Russia is ready to receive or bear or money involved in the contract. The Russian foreign minister has said his side that the issue of Mistral was no longer within the diplomacy or politics, but of the “legal and business sphere”.
France and Russia concluded in June 2011 under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy a contract valued at nearly 1.2 billion euros for the delivery of two Mistral class helicopter doors. But Paris had announced in late November postponed “until further notice” the delivery of the first such projection and command ships (BPC) built in Saint-Nazaire (West), because of the alleged involvement of Moscow in Ukrainian conflict. The first of these vessels, the “Vladivostok”, was to be initially delivered to Moscow in mid-November 2014, but is still in the port of Saint-Nazaire, just as the second ship, the “Sevastopol”.