] MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti correspondent Viktoria
] Prikhodko) - On Friday head of the State Duma committee
] on international affairs Dmitry Rogozin stated to
] journalists that the statement made by US Deputy
] Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz regarding the necessity
] for Russia, Germany and France to write off Iraqi debts
] "most probably was a careless rather than a well-thought
] idea." Rogozin stated that to forgive Iraqi debts to
] France, Germany and the Russian Federation was like
] mocking at common sense which would never be accepted.
] The head of the Duma committee was confident that it was
] the USA that should repay to Russia USD 8.5 billion of
] the Iraqi debt and about USD 2 billion for losses which
] Russian companies incurred in connection with military
] actions in Iraq.