{"id":85457,"date":"2019-02-10T15:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T22:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85457"},"modified":"2019-02-10T15:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T22:35:18","slug":"sri-lanka-russia-discussing-mi-17-helicopters-deal-for-un-missions-amb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/10\/sri-lanka-russia-discussing-mi-17-helicopters-deal-for-un-missions-amb\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka, Russia Discussing Mi-17 Helicopters Deal for UN Missions \u2013 Amb."},"content":{"rendered":"
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Sri Lanka is negotiating with Russia the purchase of a new batch of Russian Mi-17 helicopters, which the country will use in UN peacekeeping missions, Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia Dayan Jayatilleka told Sputnik on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“There is a commission that discusses the purchase of\u00a0Mi-17 helicopters,” Jayatilleka said, specifying that the country was going to\u00a0purchase the helicopters for\u00a0taking part in\u00a0UN peacekeeping missions.<\/p>\n

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The ambassador recalled that Mi-17s were on\u00a0the agenda of\u00a0a Sri Lankan senior defence officials’ visit to\u00a0Moscow in\u00a0early September 2018.<\/p>\n

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While negotiations are underway, no specific document has been signed yet, and the number of\u00a0helicopters that Sri Lanka is going to\u00a0purchase has not been defined, Jayatilleka specified.Sri Lanka has been purchasing Mi-17 helicopters since\u00a0the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

The Mi-17 medium twin-turbine helicopter is manufactured in\u00a0a variety of\u00a0forms, including cargo, passenger, search and rescue, flying hospital and firefighting models. Over 100 countries worldwide have purchased Mi-17 helicopters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Sputnik MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Sri Lanka is negotiating with Russia the purchase of a new batch of Russian Mi-17 helicopters, which the country will use in UN peacekeeping missions, Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia Dayan Jayatilleka told Sputnik on Sunday. “There is a commission that discusses the purchase of\u00a0Mi-17 helicopters,” Jayatilleka said, specifying that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}