The Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman, Gen. Mohammed al-Askari, welcomed the declaration Issaikins Anatoli, Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport Director General of the, about Russia's willingness to weapons to Iraq deliver.The appearing in the Baghdad newspaper Al-Ittihad announced.
At a news conference at RIA Novosti on last Thursday Issaikin said that Russia was ready to deliver weapons to Iraq.
He pointed out that representatives of the armed forces of Iraq and Afghanistan actually turn to Russia for the supply of various types of weapons.
“General al-Askari, welcomed the approval of the Russian government, the Iraqi armed forces with the weapons supply they need,” the newspaper said.
The general stressed that the Iraqi Ministry of Defense was interested in Russian weapons to have. Because the Iraqi army knew the Russian weapon, and they have mastered a comprehensive technical base.
Al-Askari pointed out that the Iraqi-Russian military-technical cooperation in the 1970s had their roots.
He emphasized that the list of Russian weapons for the Iraqi Army in April of last year was in Moscow at a meeting of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had been treated with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin .
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