Moldova to sell weapons package to Armenia

A shipment of weaponry is awaiting delivery to Ukraine and Armenia, 1in.am wrote with reference to Moldovan OMEGA News Agency, a source from the country's Stationery Office told Trend.

According to the source, "after the media sensation over weapon sales and the respective resolution of the parliamentary inquiry commission, the deliveries were suspended and the rest of the weapons were stored at military depots."

The source noted that the Attorney General's Office's verdict that the transaction was "clean" allows the continuation of the dispatch of the remaining weaponry, "which will be made on Prime Minister Filat's order".

"Arms and equipment subject to dispatch are the following: 11 combat vehicles 9P140 equipped with 'Uragan'220-mm MRLs; 27 9P149 'self-propelled launchers of Shturm-S' complex; 1344 C-8 KOM rockets; 219 'Shturm-S' 9M114 guided antitank missiles; one 'Shturm' 9B868 checkout vehicle. All the equipment except over 1.5 thousand C-8 rockets is subject to dispatch for Ukraine. The rockets will be delivered to Armenia," the source concluded.