Russia Offers Help to Transport French Troops to Mali

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Moscow has offered its help to Paris in transporting French troops and supplies to crisis-hit Mali. "The Russians have proposed to provide means of transport for the French," Fabius said in the interview with Europe 1 radio on Sunday. The Russian Foreign Ministry has not made official comment on the statement, which was made following Saturday’s phone conversation between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his French counterpart.

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