21 Nov 2016 09:27

Putin on incident involving Swiss Air Force, Special Flight Detachment's plane: let's see it as honorary escort

LIMA. Nov 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that Swiss fighter jets which accompanied the Special Flight Detachment's plane carrying delegation members and the Kremlin media pool to the APEC summit be seen as an honorary escort.

"Let us think it was an honorary escort," Putin told a press conference after the APEC summit, responding the request for comment on that incident.