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    TAJIKISTAN BUYING GUNS; UKRAINE SELLING WEAPONS TO BOTH ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN

    EurasiaNet.org
    http://www.eurasianet.org/node/64014
    Aug 8 2011
    NY

    Tajikistan has gone on a but of a small-arms buying spree, and Ukraine
    has been selling lots of weapons to both Armenia and Azerbaijan. Those
    are some of the early returns from the United Nations Register of
    Conventional Arms, to which countries are supposed to report all the
    weapons imports and exports they have engaged in over the previous
    year. The 2010 register has been published. Most of the big transfers
    -- of aircraft or ships, for example -- tend to make the news before
    this comes out, but lesser deals, like small arms, don't.

    Tajikistan hasn't bought much over the last decade, but in 2010 it
    bought a number of small arms from Serbia and Bulgaria. According to
    the register, Tajikistan's purchases from Bulgaria:

    120 rifles and carbines
    200 submachine guns
    76 assault rifles
    100 light machine guns
    200 handheld grenade launchers
    6 60mm mortars

    And from Serbia:

    100 rifles and carbines
    29 light machine guns
    195 heavy machine guns

    Seems a reasonable set of purchases given Tajikistan's fight against
    Islamist rebels.

    Meanwhile, Ukraine reports that it has engaged in the time-honored
    tradition of selling weapons to both sides of a conflict. To
    Azerbaijan:

    71 BTR-70 armored combat vehicles (without arms)
    7 122mm self-propelled artillery systems
    1 Mi-24R attack helicopter
    3,000 submachine guns
    1 portable anti-tank missile launcher or rocket system

    And to Armenia:

    2 L-39 training aircraft
    230 revolvers and pistols
    60 rifles and carbines
    16,500 submachine guns
    2,501 light machine guns

    Mongolia, filed a report but had nothing to declare. Turkmenistan filed
    a report saying it had nothing to declare, but Russia's report noted
    the delivery of 8 artillery systems to Turkmenistan. Georgia hasn't
    filed a report since 2007, Uzbekistan since 2003. But Paul Holtom
    of the great institution SIPRI (who deserves credit for calling my
    attention to the above) notes that although the deadline is May,
    reports also trickle in throughout the summer. So we'll keep you
    posted.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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