Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The ships of the Northern Fleet will take a course on Havana.

Order warships Northern Fleet commits entry into the Cuban port of Havana, reported Interfax. Visiting a large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Chabanenko", the courts of "Ivan Bubnov and SB-406" will be the first since the collapse of the Soviet Union's trip to the island of Liberty Russian warships.
December 15, the ships will leave Nicaragua, where they arrived two days before, and take a course in Cuba. It is envisaged that Havana will celebrate the Russian navy on 19 December. In the Cuban capital, planned a meeting with the commander of the Navy Cuba, the Mayor, representatives of the Russian embassy. Local residents will provide the opportunity to visit the Northern Fleet warships.
According to the Navy Command of Russia, "the visits of Russian ships to Venezuela, Panama and Nicaragua will help identify a sustainable perspective for the development of relations with the naval forces of these states for the development of stability and confidence in the oceans." Assistant glavkoma Russian Navy Captain First Rank Igor Dygalo also said that "business run detachment Navy warships Russia in Havana will be a significant practical step in strengthening and developing ties between the naval authorities of two nations".
Recall that the detachment of ships the Navy Russia came to the shores of Nicaragua on Saturday. Court, was brought into the country shipment of humanitarian aid, stood at anchor at 9 miles from the port Blufilds on the Atlantic coast, in the autonomous southern Atlantic region. The Parliament of Nicaragua had not given permission to run the Russian ships, as required by the constitution. But President Daniel Ortega said that Navy ships of Russia can enter the territorial waters despite this.

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