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MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - Suspected...

Vremya Novostei said that the ship's commanders and diplomats face legal difficulties in handing over the suspects over to any of the Gulf of Aden littoral states.

The Admiral Panteleyev missile destroyer seized on Tuesday a boat carrying 29 people, believed to have unsuccessfully attacked a Russian-staffed oil tanker which passed through the Gulf en route to Singapore, Russia's Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

The paper said Russia has no agreements with regional nations that would allow it to hand over the suspects. Russia has no embassy in Somalia, where most of the detainees come from.

"We have to admit that not all the legal and practical issues have been resolved," official Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Wednesday. "We have come up against difficulties in bringing the suspects to justice."

Moscow is entitled under a United Nations Security Council resolution to take the suspects to Russia for trial. The United

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