South Sudan - Must Punish Those Who Downed U - Russia Reuters - Helicopter

Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:44am EST

MOSCOW Dec 22 (Reuters) - Russia known as about South Sudan on Saturday for you to punish those people accountable for filming down your U.N. helicopter, harming its several Russian crew, plus make a move to make sure such happenings will not come about again.

A Russian Foreign Ministry affirmation branded the sufferers along with mentioned the actual "tragic occurrence" in the African location on Friday underscored the requirement to make security for U.N. peacekeeping missions.

"We telephone within the government of South Sudan to help conduct a correct exploration of the incident, that will discipline those people accountable and also carry out almost all measures for you to ensure nothing beats the following goes on inside future," it said.

The Mi-8 heli-copter owned by simply Russian surroundings charter corporation Nizhnevartovskavia had been working under a U.N. contract on the reconnaissance vision around a good area where the SPLA, South Sudan 's army, may be fighting rebels contributed simply by David Yau Yau, in line with a new U.N. source.

The SPLA first dissmissed off this had taken along your helicopter but soon after said this have mistaken it for a Sudanese plane offering rebels, and expressed regret.

The Russian statement explained which the downing "raises the particular challenge with the provision of security involving U.N. peacekeeping missions having brand-new acuteness", and that intended for locations must require your matter very seriously.