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Paris agrees to sell warships to Russia

12:05 02/03/2010

France said yesterday that it had begun exclusive negotiations with Moscow to sell Russia four helicopter-and-troop ships, despite opposition from the US and the Baltic states.

After talks with President Dmitry Medvedev, on a state visit to France, Nicolas Sarkozy, his French counterpart, said one or preferably two 21,300-ton Mistral-class ships would be built at the STX shipyards at Saint-Nazaire, western France. The others would be built in Russia.

By Ben Hall in Paris

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