Russia
To Deliver 50 Armored Vehicles To
Palestinians
Soon
Russia
will
deliver 50 BTR-70 armored personnel
carriers (APC)
to the Palestinian security forces in
the West
Bank in the next few days, the Foreign
Ministry said recently. Israel
agreed in 2008 on the supply of
Russian APC
stripped of weaponry to Palestinian
security
forces to help them fight terrorist
organizations. "Russia
continues to provide assistance to
Palestinians. The 50 APCs will be
delivered to
Jordan
in the next few days and they will
later be
transferred to the Palestinian
security forces
in the West Bank," said spokesman
Andrei
Nesterenko at a news briefing in
Moscow.
The
Russian
Defense Ministry earlier said that all
50
vehicles, taken from the ministry's
arsenal,
were ready for shipment and weapons
have been
removed from them. Russia
is donating the APCs to the
Palestinian
authorities.