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To: PK who wrote (4340)	10/29/1997 12:34:00 PM
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World News Updated 11:51am EST October 29, 1997 Kazakhs Get Russian Su-27 Aircraft ALMATY (Reuters) - Moscow will hand over four Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jets to Kazakhstan by the end of this year as part of a deal over its use of Kazakh weapon testing sites, Russia's defense minister said Wednesday. Russia is expected eventually to provide Kazakhstan with a total of 32 aircraft in compensation for ecological damage caused by its use of the vast weapons test sites in the former Soviet republic. "By the end of 1997 we will take another step, handing over four Su-27 aircraft out of the remaining 32 to Kazakhstan's armed forces," Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev told a news conference in the Kazakh capital Almaty. "This is our duty, this is our compensation," said Sergeyev, who earlier Wednesday held talks with Kazakh President Nursulatan Nazarbayev. "These aircraft are almost new." Kazakh Defense Minister Mukhtar Altynbayev said Russia had already delivered six aircraft to Kazakhstan. "Six aircraft have already been delivered...This is progress," he said. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has rented the Baikonur cosmodrome in the south of the sprawling Central Asian state as well as other test sites such as those at Kapustin Yar. Russia uses the test sites at Kapustin Yar, which stretch for hundreds of miles across the steppe of western and central Kazakhstan, for testing missiles and aircraft.