Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Å utanovac says that Serbia has exported weapons and military equipment worth USD 750mn since 2007.
He told daily Politika that the value of export had been USD 75mn in 2007 but that it had reached USD 247mn last year.
Weapons could soon become the third most recognized Serbian export – right behind “tennis and raspberries”, writes a London magazine. The Economist article mentions that the former Yugoslavia was a “big arms exporter”, particularly to third world countries.
Albania will donate weapons and ammunition to Afghanistan, so as to contribute to the efforts of the international community in the fight against terrorism.
This was officially announced in Tirana.
Pakistan’s pursuit of nuclear weapons was an “existential and defensive imperative†to compensate for the new imbalance of power tilted towards India, former president Pervez Musharraf has said, adding that the nation’s nuclear weapons are “secureâ€. In a Newsweek Pakistan exclusive, Musharraf said, “India’s ‘Smiling Buddha’ nuclear tests in 1974 changed everything. Pakistan was forced [...]
Mel Gibson surrendered multiple weapons to LAPD after Oksana Grigorieva accused him of domestic violence. Information about the weapons is provided in an LAPD document called ‘Receipt of Property taken into custody’, reports TMZ.com. Judge Scott Gordon ordered Gibson to submit his weapons, after Oksana filed for a domestic violence restraining order. The order to [...]
Russia says it is dissatisfied with the United States’ fulfillment of its obligations according to their arms-reduction treaty. RIA-Novosti reports Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday the U.S. has failed to provide assurances that some of its former nuclear missile launchers and bombers, now converted to accommodate conventional weapons, could not be retrofitted to again use nuclear arms.
NATO officials are “concerned over the latest developments in the Macedonian-Kosovo border zoneâ€, said reports from PriÅ¡tina. A large weapons cache was discovered there recently, after Macedonian police engaged an ethnic Albanian gang from Kosovo.
The United States announced this week a new strategic policy for its nuclear weapons, VOA reports. The policy puts unprecedented emphasis on the nuclear threat from terrorists and rogue states, as opposed to traditional nuclear powers like Russia and China.
Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said that Serbia could potentially earn up to USD 1bn from its weapons export industry in 2009, daily Blic reports. “We have the best placement of products with traditionally friendly countries from the Near East and North Africa. With these countries we have long-term experience in training and schooling their soldiers at our military academy, so we are also exporting knowledge,†Šutanovac said.
North Korea’s leader pledged again to remove nuclear weapons from the peninsula, a news report said on Tuesday, and also sent his top nuclear envoy to Beijing in a move that could bode well for stalled disarmament talks. While Kim Jong-il has made, and broken, similar pledges before,
Philippine security forces on Sunday found another cache of buried weapons in a southern province where martial law has been imposed following a massacre, the military said. About 40 firearms, including M16 assault rifles, were uncovered on a property that is believed to be owned by the
” Kadhafi said. At this juncture when talks are being held and the plans are being chalked out to render the entire world a nuclear free; Libya seems to not have endorsed the idea as it advocates the ‘N’ potency for Arab and middle east nations.
Arab nations and “even the Palestinians” should be allowed [...]
Russia’s new military doctrine will include changes to situations that could trigger use of nuclear weapons or preventive strikes, says a senior official. Russia will soon adopt a new military doctrine that aims to transform the Armed Forces into a more effective and mobile military force, said the secretary of Russia’s Security Council said on Thursday.
The police have found illegal weapons at the flat of MiÅ¡a VaÄić, a spokesman for the 1389 Movement, B92 understands. The public prosecution has filed a motion calling for a ban of the ultra right-wing organizations, Obraz and 1389.
Venezuela has raised the stakes in South America, buying Russian tanks and missiles with money borrowed from Moscow. President Hugo Chavez announced the EUR 1.4bn deal on his weekly television show. He said he borrowed the money so Venezuela would not have to cut spending on social programs.
The Mexican army and prosecutors say they have started destroying 79,074 firearms seized more than a decade ago, but will hold on to tens of thousands more weapons seized during the current offensive against drug cartels. The firearms being destroyed have all been held at government
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Backers, led by Sen….
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says she opposes a Senate measure that would give people the right to carry concealed weapons across state lines as long as they obey the concealed gun laws of the state they are visiting.
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