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    APA, Azerbaijan
    Aug 14 2012

    Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry researches reports about Ukraine's
    secret arms sale to Armenia



    [ 14 Aug 2012 13:37 ]
    Baku - APA. Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry researches the reports about
    Ukraine's secret arms sale to Armenia, Spokesman for the Defense
    Ministry, Colonel Eldar Sabiroglu told APA.

    Sabiroglu said that the Defense Ministy received such information:
    `Corresponding researches are carried out in this direction'.

    The report says that the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of
    the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Major-General Sergei Gmyza sent a
    letter to President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych explaining the ways
    of arms supplies to Armenia under a contract between Ukrspetsexport
    and DG Arms Corporation (the mediator of Armenian Defense Ministry).

    The letter offers to use front companies registered in EU and CIS for
    supplies. According to the letter, Main Intelligence Directorate of
    the Ukrainian Defense Ministry received information about the contract
    between the Ukrspetsexport and DG Arms Corporation (the mediator of
    Armenian Defense Ministry) to supply 12 units of Smerch multiple
    rocket launching systems and their components, 50 Igla MANPADS, as
    well as the fact that Armenia has already paid 50 percent of contract
    value.

    Gmyza said that not wanting to jeopardize the military-technical and
    energy cooperation between Azerbaijan and Ukraine, Ukrspetsexport is
    invited to "publicly renounce the fact of an agreement with the
    Armenian side." At the same time the Armenian company is offered to
    simulate the appeal to arbitration, "the spread among its environment
    of sharply negative attitude to the leadership of Ukrspetsexport and
    the Ukrainian side, as an unreliable supplier."

    At the same time head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the
    Ukrainian Defense Ministry proposed to carry out the delivery of
    Smerch sets in a conspiracy from the territory of Moldova, "using
    front companies registered in the EU or the CIS."

    Marking on the products this should be changed, and in the case of
    disclosure of fraud to conceal origin of Igla MANPADS by warehouses in
    Libya, looted by rebels of the liberation movement.

    Deputy Director of the Press and Public Relations Department of the
    Ukraine's Defense Ministry Valery Korol refused to comment the issue
    to APA.

    Ukrainian embassy in Azerbaijan has already issued statement on
    reports about this country's secret arms sale to Armenia in 2011.

    The statement says that the copy of letter from Ukrainian Defense
    Ministry to Ukrainian president that was placed on August 8, 2012 on a
    Ukrainian website is false.

    The embassy considers that this provocation aims to damage
    Ukraine-Azerbaijan friendly relations. `The strategic character of
    these relations is unchangeable and a priority for Ukraine'.

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