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Deployment of Patriots in Turkey means no-fly zone for Syria

  • 25-11-2012 11:53AM
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    Run_to_da_hills
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    And what will happen if a Russian civilian or military aircraft gets accidentally shot down. :eek:

    The planned deployment by NATO countries of Patriot air defense systems on Turkey’s Syria border will actually amount to the imposition of a no-fly zone for Syrian aircraft in circumvention of the UN Security Council.
    The opinion has been voiced by the leading research fellow of the Russian Institute for Oriental Studies, Vladimir Kudelev.

    He feels that Patriot systems may drastically influence the fighting between the government troops and the opposition in the north of Syria, since the militants will thus get a 200 kilometre - to 250 kilometre-wide “umbrella” all along the Syrian-Turkish border.

    The deployment of Patriots would also undermine the role of the UN Security Council, which, experts feel, would hardly authorize any proposal to impose a no-fly zone for Syrian aircraft.

    http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_11_24/Deployment-of-Patriots-in-Turkey-means-no-fly-zone-for-Syria/


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