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South Caucasian republics purchased 107 324 small arms in 2005-2010 - EXCLUSIVE

South Caucasian republics purchased 107 324 small arms in 2005-2010 - <font color=red>EXCLUSIVE</font>

04 January 2012 13:55 (UTC +04:00)

APA reports quoting the UN Register of Conventional Arms that Georgia takes the first place among the South Caucasian republics on purchase of small arms during this period.

Georgia bought 76 377 small arms from 7 countries. The submachine guns, short rifles, pistols, automatic rifles, pistol-machineguns, heavy machineguns, grenade launchers as well as the short rifles used in the early 20th century, are among them. Ukraine and Bulgaria took the main place among the countries which sold arms to Georgia. US, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania and Turkey also sold arms to Georgia. Georgia bought 20 12,7mm caliber â€œBarretâ€ sniper rifles, 5000 M4A3 gun from the USA, MP-5 pistol-machinegun FROM Turkey.

Armenia takes the 2nd place among the South Caucasian republics. Armenia bought 20 967 various small arms, most of all from Ukraine and Russia. Armenia also bought 250 12,7mm â€œBlack Arrowâ€ submachine guns from Serbia, 480 AK-105 submachine guns, 52 new SV-98 sniper rifles from Russia.

Azerbaijan takes the 3rd place with 8862 arms which it bought most of all from Ukraine and Turkey. Azerbaijan most of all bought automatic rifles, pistol-machine guns, machine guns and pistols.

Ukraine takes the first place among the countries which sold weapons to the South Caucasian republics. Thus, this country sold 85 288 arms (79.4%) to the South Caucasian republics. Bulgaria takes the 2nd place with 12357 arms (11.5%), then US with 5020 arms (4.6%), Russia with 1276 arms (1.1%) and Turkey with 1160 arms (1%). The other arms fall into share of Romania, Serbia, Austria, Czech republic, Croatia and Slovakia.