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Article: PRESIDENT: SUKHOI PURCHASE FREE FROM PRICE MANIPULATION.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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Jakarta, Aug 1 (ANTARA) - President Megawati Soekarnoputri gave the assurance on Friday that the purchase of four Sukhoi jet fighters and Mi-35 helicopters from Russia is free from any price manipulation.
"A rumor that there has been price manipulation (in the purchase of the aircraft), as far as I know, is unfounded," she said in her address at the annual session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) here. The purchase is part of a US$192 million counter-trade deal signed by the Indonesian and Russian governments during President Megawati's visit to Moscow last April. Under the deal, Russia will receive some 30 different commodities and ...