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As the RF Ministry Foreign Affairs official representative Alexander Lukashevich informs it has already been a month that Moscow is waiting for a reply from Turkey regarding the reason of forceful landing in Ankara of the Syrian plane flying from Moscow to Damascus and when Turkey will return the confiscated cargo.

‘We still do not have additional information, the negotiations are on. We wish to get the image from the Turkish colleagues as before, as to what the restriction was connected with and of course to have some certainty regarding the cargo’ said the RF Foreign Ministry official representative.

Lukashevich also noted that Turkish authorities refused to provide a document regarding the cargo confiscation to the aircraft commander.

As a reminder, a Syrian plane flying from Moscow to Damascus forcefully landed on October 10 in Ankara by the demand of Turkish authorities. There were 35 passengers on board, 17 Russians including children.

The Prime Minister of Turkey Rejep Tayip Erdogan stated that having violated civil aviation rules the plane was transporting a cargo of military significance. The Russian side insisted that there were no weapons on the plane blocked by Turkey, as for the transportation of electro-technical devices by civil planes it is in line with the international conventions of aviation sphere and all the documents connected with them have proper formulations.

It should also be noted that the RF Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov stated on October 23 that Russia expected Turkey’s public acceptance of the fact that there were no weapons on the Syrian plane that was forcefully landed in Ankara when flying from Moscow to Damascus.