The US Department of Defense should drop a $900 million contract with Russian arms sales company Rosoboronexport to supply helicopters to Afghanistan’s forces, if Moscow continues to arm the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, 17 senators have said in a statement sent to Pentagon head Leon Panetta, RIA Novosti reported, citing the Foreign Policy Journal.
“I am concerned that the US Army is listed among the clients of Rosoboronexport. The United States has many alternative places to purchase helicopters, should we be rewarding Russia for its actions on Syria by buying their Mi-17s?” Senator John Cornyn said at a hearing on Thursday.
Cornyn and another senator, Dick Durbin, are the authors of the statement.
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