Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Aug 13 2012
Ukraine wants to secretly export weapons to Armenia – Mass media
Details of the letter of head of the Main Intelligence Directorate
of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Major-General Sergei Gmyza, to
President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych on arms supplies to Armenia
under a contract between Ukrspetsexport and DG Arms Corporation (the
mediator of Armenian Defense Ministry) have become known, says Trend.
The letter offers to use front companies registered in the EU and the CIS for
supplies. The letter contains a scheme for illegal supplying 12 units
of multiple Smerch rocket-launching systems and their components, as
well as 50 Igla MANPADS from Ukraine to Armenia.
As noted in the letter, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian
Defense Ministry received information about the contract between
Ukrspetsexport and the DG Arms Corporation (the mediator of the 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 the contract’s value.
At the same time, Gmyza indicates that Azerbaijan may be aware of this deal.
Not wanting to jeopardize the military-technical and energy
cooperation between Azerbaijan and Ukraine, Ukrspetsexport is invited
to “publicly renounce that there was 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 a
sharply negative attitude to the leadership of Ukrspetsexport and the
Ukrainian side, as an unreliable supplier.”
At the same time, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the
Ukrainian Defense Ministry proposed carrying out the delivery of
Smerch sets in a conspiracy from the territory of Moldova, “using
front companies registered in the EU or the CIS.”
The marking on the products should be changed, and in the case of
disclosure of fraud to conceal the origin of Igla MANPADS in warehouses in
Libya, looted by rebels of the liberation movement.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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