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    EurasiaNet.org, NY
    July 20 2013



    Azerbaijan Blames Greece And Cyprus For Selling French/German Missiles
    To Armenia


    July 20, 2013 - 4:27pm, by Joshua Kucera

    Azerbaijan has investigated reports of sales of French/German
    anti-tank missiles to Armenia, and has concluded that they were
    provided by Greece and Cyprus. Azerbaijan news agency APA reports,
    citing unnamed military officials:


    The investigations carried out by Azerbaijan have revealed that
    Armenia has purchased anti-tank missiles and a lot of machine-guns and
    grenade throwers from Greece and Cyprus in the past two years.
    According to the obtained reports, Armenia has purchased more than 20
    MILAN missiles from Greece. The missiles have been reportedly sold
    from the arsenal of Greek armed forces.

    For its part, the Greek embassy in Baku has denied the claim.

    Shortly thereafter, APA reported that Azerbaijan itself had bought
    anti-tank missiles from Ukraine last year. Ukraine, in theory, is
    subject to the same sanctions as France and Germany are: the sanctions
    are imposed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
    Europe, of which Ukraine is a member, too. But the sanctions obviously
    are enforced only by certain OSCE members.

    Perhaps unsurprisingly, Armenia has yet to comment on the issue.

    http://www.eurasianet.org/node/67278



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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