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Minsk says that it supplied weapons to Armenia, Eritrea and Sudan last year

The Belarusian government has announced that it did not import any conventional weapons and supplied arms only to Armenia, Eritrea and Sudan in 2007, BelaPAN said.

A report sent to the UN Register of Conventional Arms says that Belarus supplied Sudan with two modernized versions of the BTR-70 armored personnel carrier, sold 10 122-milimeter D-30 howitzer guns to Armenia and nine Uragan multiple launch rocket systems to Eritrea.

The value of the contracts was not disclosed.

In 2006, Belarus shipped 41 T-72 tanks to Azerbaijan in its only arms trade deal that year.

In 2005, Belarus supplied Azerbaijan with 19 T-72 tanks, exported two Mi-8 helicopters to Slovakia and two Mi-24 choppers to Djibouti, the lowest amount of weapons sold by the country in a decade.

In 2004, Belarus supplied Sudan with 21 BRDM-2 armored reconnaissance vehicles, seven BTR-80 and 10 BTR-70 armored personnel carriers and a BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle. In addition, Belarus sold two Su-25 fighter jets to Ivory Coast.

In 2003, Belarus exported nine BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, 39 BRDM-2s and 32 artillery systems to Sudan, 19 missiles for the Igla mobile anti-aircraft system to Sweden and 20 armored vehicles and 16 artillery systems to Ivory Coast.

Between 1996 and 2002, Belarus sold arms to Iran, Algeria, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Peru, Congo, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Uganda, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Ukraine.