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  • BAKU: S Caucasian republics purchased 107,324 small arms in 2005-201

    MilAz.info, Azerbaijan
    Jan 4 2012


    South Caucasian republics purchased 107 324 small arms in 2005-2010


    17:32 04-01-2012
    The South Caucasian republics purchased 107 324 small arms from
    various countries of the world in 2005-2010.

    APA reports quoting the UN Register of Conventional Arms that Georgia
    takes the first place among the South Caucasian republics on purchase
    of small arms during this period.


    Georgia bought 76 377 small arms from 7 countries. The submachine
    guns, short rifles, pistols, automatic rifles, pistol-machineguns,
    heavy machineguns, grenade launchers as well as the short rifles used
    in the early 20th century, are among them. Ukraine and Bulgaria took
    the main place among the countries which sold arms to Georgia. US,
    Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania and Turkey also sold arms to Georgia.
    Georgia bought 20 12,7mm caliber `Barret' sniper rifles, 5000 M4A3 gun
    from the USA, MP-5 pistol-machinegun FROM Turkey.

    Armenia takes the 2nd place among the South Caucasian republics.
    Armenia bought 20 967 various small arms, most of all from Ukraine and
    Russia. Armenia also bought 250 12,7mm `Black Arrow' submachine guns
    from Serbia, 480 AK-105 submachine guns, 52 new SV-98 sniper rifles
    from Russia.

    Azerbaijan takes the 3rd place with 8862 arms which it bought most of
    all from Ukraine and Turkey. Azerbaijan most of all bought automatic
    rifles, pistol-machine guns, machine guns and pistols.

    Ukraine takes the first place among the countries which sold weapons
    to the South Caucasian republics. Thus, this country sold 85 288 arms
    (79.4%) to the South Caucasian republics. Bulgaria takes the 2nd place
    with 12357 arms (11.5%), then US with 5020 arms (4.6%), Russia with
    1276 arms (1.1%) and Turkey with 1160 arms (1%). The other arms fall
    into share of Romania, Serbia, Austria, Czech republic, Croatia and
    Slovakia.

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