RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO AZERBAIJAN CALLED TO FOREIGN MINISTRY FOR RUSSIA’S SALE OF AMMO TO ARMENIA

Trend News Agency
Jan 12 2009
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan. 12/ Trend News, E. Rustamov/ Russian Ambassador
to Azerbaijan Vasiliy Istratov has been invited to the Foreign Ministry
of Azerbaijan due to reports claiming that Russia has sold ammunition
worth $800 million to Armenian armed forces from Russia’s military
base 102 located in Armenia’s Gumru city.

"The Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov officially inquired the
ambassador about the truth of reports. Istratov said Russia will make
a clarification on this issue," Foreign Ministry’s press service told
Trend News.

According to mass media reports, the list of ammo sold to Armenia
include 21 units of T-22 tanks, 27 units of BMP-2, 12 units of APC
70/80, 5 BREM-2 war vehicles produced on basis of 5 BMP-1, 4 units
of ZSU- 23-4 Shilka rockets, Strela rockets of different brands,
875 boxes of F-1 and RQD grenades, 1050 boxes of RKQ-3/3 EM grenade,
7,897 ammo of different brand (122 millimeters RS, 152 millimeters
2s3, 122 millimeters D-30), 120 units of QP-25 grenade launchers, 2,
846 units of 5.45 millimeters of AK-74 and AKS-74 guns, 1,472 units
of 7.62 millimeters of AKM and AKMS guns, 103 units of NB-8 nights
vision equipment, trotill sabers, mines of different brands (TM 62
M/P, OZM-72, PMN), 14 units of BM-37 mine launcher, 9 Grads (RSZO 9K51
BM-21), 10 units of Akasia howitzer produced on basis of T-55 (SAU 152
millimeters of 1S), 14 units of Gvozdika howitzer produced on basis
of MT-LBU (SAU 122 millimeters of 2 S1), 5 units of Rapira cannons
of 100 millimeters (MT-12r), 210 units of 3 M9M3 Kub rockets etc.