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    SNOWDEN WITHDRAWS REQUEST FOR RUSSIA ASYLUM - KREMLIN

    July 2, 2013 - 12:52 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Edward Snowden, the former U.S. intelligence
    contractor wanted by the United States for leaking state secrets,
    asked for asylum in Russia but withdrew his request after hearing
    Russia's conditions for granting it, a Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday,
    July 2, accoridng to RIA Novosti.

    "Snowden did voice a request to remain in Russia. Then, yesterday,
    hearing President Putin outline Russia's position regarding the
    conditions under which he could do this, he withdrew his request
    for permission to stay in Russia," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
    told journalists.

    On Monday evening, Putin said: "If he wants to go somewhere [another
    country] and is accepted, he can. If he wants to stay here, there is
    one condition: He must stop his work aimed at harming our U.S.

    partners, no matter how strange this may sound coming from me."

    Peskov confirmed that Snowden is in the transit zone of Moscow's
    Sheremetyevo airport and had not crossed Russia's state border.

    "He [Snowden] does not currently wish to remain in Russia," Peskov
    said, and also stressed that Russia's secret services have never
    worked with Snowden."He is not their agent," Peskov clarified.

    Earlier on Tuesday, the WikiLeaks site published a list of 21 countries
    to which Snowden had submitted asylum requests.

    In addition to Cuba, Ecuador and Iceland, which had been rumored to
    be his preferred destinations, the list also includes countries in
    Western Europe such as Austria, France, Germany and Italy. China is
    also on the list.




    From: A. Papazian
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