Russia Denies Plan To Sell Air Defense System To Syria

Russia Denies Plan To Sell Air Defense System To Syria
Rebel fighters of the Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) talk as they hold a position in Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood on the Syrian city of Aleppo on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
Rebel fighters of the Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) talk as they hold a position in Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood on the Syrian city of Aleppo on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

MOSCOW, May 10 (Reuters) - Russia has no plans to sell Syria an advanced air defense system, its foreign minister said on Friday, denying media reports that it planned such a sale.

Itar-Tass news agency quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying Russia would be fulfilling contracts it has already concluded with Damascus but that this did not include sales of the S-300 system.

(Reporting by Jason Bush, Editing by Timothy Heritage)

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