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MOLDOVA TO SELL WEAPONS PACKAGE TO ARMENIA
Trend, Azerbaijan
April 5 2013
A shipment of weaponry is awaiting delivery to Ukraine and Armenia,
1in.am wrote with reference to Moldovan OMEGA News Agency, a source
from the country's Stationery Office told Trend.
According to the source, "after the media sensation over weapon sales
and the respective resolution of the parliamentary inquiry commission,
the deliveries were suspended and the rest of the weapons were stored
at military depots."
The source noted that the Attorney General's Office's verdict that
the transaction was "clean" allows the continuation of the dispatch
of the remaining weaponry, "which will be made on Prime Minister
Filat's order".
"Arms and equipment subject to dispatch are the following: 11
combat vehicles 9P140 equipped with 'Uragan'220-mm MRLs; 27 9P149
'self-propelled launchers of Shturm-S' complex; 1344 C-8 KOM rockets;
219 'Shturm-S' 9M114 guided antitank missiles; one 'Shturm' 9B868
checkout vehicle. All the equipment except over 1.5 thousand C-8
rockets is subject to dispatch for Ukraine. The rockets will be
delivered to Armenia," the source concluded.
Trend, Azerbaijan
April 5 2013
A shipment of weaponry is awaiting delivery to Ukraine and Armenia,
1in.am wrote with reference to Moldovan OMEGA News Agency, a source
from the country's Stationery Office told Trend.
According to the source, "after the media sensation over weapon sales
and the respective resolution of the parliamentary inquiry commission,
the deliveries were suspended and the rest of the weapons were stored
at military depots."
The source noted that the Attorney General's Office's verdict that
the transaction was "clean" allows the continuation of the dispatch
of the remaining weaponry, "which will be made on Prime Minister
Filat's order".
"Arms and equipment subject to dispatch are the following: 11
combat vehicles 9P140 equipped with 'Uragan'220-mm MRLs; 27 9P149
'self-propelled launchers of Shturm-S' complex; 1344 C-8 KOM rockets;
219 'Shturm-S' 9M114 guided antitank missiles; one 'Shturm' 9B868
checkout vehicle. All the equipment except over 1.5 thousand C-8
rockets is subject to dispatch for Ukraine. The rockets will be
delivered to Armenia," the source concluded.