NEWPORT Wales (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that a ceasefire and a political settlement in Ukraine were conditions for France to deliver a warship it has built for Russia.
Hollande told reporters on the sidelines of a NATO summit that the contract to supply two Mistral-class helicopter carriers was neither canceled nor suspended, but the conditions for delivering the first ship—due in October—were not ripe.
“What are the conditions? A ceasefire and a political settlement,” he said. “Today these conditions are not in place.”
If there were further complications, delivery would be delayed but the contract would not be …read more
Source: Newsweek