French ambassador summoned to Russian Foreign Ministry due to incident with Naryshkin’s plane

The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned the ambassador of France Jean-Maurice Ripert to Moscow to provide explanations about the dangerous approach of an aircraft of the French Air Force with a plane carrying a Russian parliamentary delegation led by Speaker of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin.

The approach of the French military aircraft and the Russian airliner occurred today in the national airspace of France. The Russian delegation was on its way to Geneva (Switzerland) to attend the 133rd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.