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Russian PM cancels US trip

Thursday 24 June 1993 23:02 BST
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The Russian Prime Minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, yesterday cancelled a trip to Washington after US officials stepped up pressure on Russia to stop selling missile technology to the Third World, AP reports from Moscow.

The abrupt cancellation - a diplomatic slight unheard of in recent US-Russian relations - comes amid US threats to impose economic penalties on Russian companies that sell such technology.

Mr Chernomyrdin's trip was to have begun tomorrow.

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