ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) – Russia and Guinea have not yet reached an agreement on deliveries of helicopters, Guinean President Alpha Conde told Sputnik on Thursday.
"On helicopters no, it is not," Conde said answering a corresponding question on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
In April, Russia offered Guinea to deliver civil helicopters of various types, including light multipurpose Ka-226T and medium-sized Mi-17.
The Russian Helicopters company also expressed readiness to repair, equip and modernize the Russian and Soviet helicopters already delivered to Guinea.
The 2016 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) is taking place on June 16-18. The agenda for SPIEF-2016, which will be held at a new venue for the first time in 20 years — at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Centre — includes business forums of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS, and the Business 20. According to the organizing committee, the number of contracts at SPIEF is expected to be not less than in 2015 when the total volume of agreements reached 293 billion rubles ($4.4 billion). Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said on Tuesday that the number of SPIEF participants would exceed 10,000 this year, compared to 7,500 in 2015.
