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Russia casts doubt on U.N.'s Georgia plane probe

MOSCOW
Tue May 27, 2008 9:02am EDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it did not have confidence in a United Nations report which said a Russian air force plane shot down an unmanned Georgian spy plane over Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region last month.

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"Overall, the quality of these investigations does not inspire confidence," Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement posted on its Internet site www.mid.ru.

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Christian Lowe)



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