Press Release: 07 Sept Worldwide Protest To Cancel The Mistral Deal
The delivery of a class Mistral war ship to Putin has just been put on hold for one month. Considering Putin's open invasion of Ukraine, we strongly believe that this deal has to be totally cancelled. We will gather in 10 different countries this Sunday the 07th of September to ask: - NATO, EU or any country opposing the Mistral deal to make an offer to buy the ships in order to unblock the situation. - Francois Hollande to definitely cancel the Mistral deal with Russia. - France to forbid the sea trials of the Mistral "Vladivostok" on the 10th of September as there are risks of it sailing in international waters and escape to Russia. - President Poroshenko to request an international meeting to discuss the threat involved by the delivery of these war ships to Putin and find solutions. As a reminder, following Russian's invasion of Georgia in 2008, Russia realized that it was lacking specific tools to project forces and coordinate actions in order...