March 24, 2008 2:05 PM
BELGRADE, Mar 24, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Serbia has reached a deal
with Iraq to export weapons and military equipment worth 235 million U.S.
dollars, Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac said Monday.
"We expect that the money will be deposited, and that we will show that
despite challenges, the country is stable, and the Serbian military industry
has the capacity to produce what has been agreed upon," Sutanovac told
the official news agency Tanjug.
Serbia's government collapsed on March 13 due to infighting between
the ruling coalition over Kosovo and EU integration. Early parliamentary
elections have been called for May 11.
Sutanovac said an Iraqi Defense Ministry delegation had visited Serbia
twice in recent months and that a deal was signed with the state military
trade company Jugoimport SDPR.
He did not specify the weapons to be sold to Iraq, but Serbian military
experts believe they include assault rifles, machine guns, anti-tank munitions
and an array of explosives
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