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Lieberman expected to raise Syrian arms delivery in Moscow

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is expected to discuss Russia’s recent delivery of ship-killing missiles to Syria during high level meetings this week with Russian officials in Lithuania and Russia.
According to an Interfax report last week, Russia recently delivered Yaknot cruise missiles it sold to Damascus in 2007. Both Israel and the US had intensively lobbied against the sale, and then against the delivery. Under the deal, worth a reported $300 million, Russia was believed to be contracted to deliver 72 missiles, which it said will protect Syria’s coast from possible attack.
Israel expressed concern in the past that these missiles would fall into Hezbollah’s hands.
The delivery of the missiles to Moscow’s traditional ally in the Middle East comes in defiance of western calls for an arms embargo against Syria because of the continuing violence there.