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Details of letter of Ukraineâ€™s Defense Ministry Main Intelligence Directorate about secret arms sale to Armenia become known - LETTER

Details of letter of Ukraineâ€™s Defense Ministry Main Intelligence Directorate about secret arms sale to Armenia become known - <font color=red>LETTER</font>

14 August 2012 14:23 (UTC +04:00)

The letter No. 22/3D/0102 dated back to 15 October 2011.

In the letter, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Major-General Sergei Gmyza explained the ways of arms supplies to Armenia under a contract between Ukrspetsexport and DG Arms Corporation (the mediator of Armenian Defense Ministry). The letter offers to use front companies registered in EU and CIS for supplies. According to the letter, Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry received information about the contract between the Ukrspetsexport and DG Arms Corporation (the mediator of Armenian Defense Ministry) to supply 12 units of Smerch multiple rocket launching systems and their components, 50 Igla MANPADS, as well as the fact that Armenia has already paid 50 percent of contract value.
Gmyza said that not wanting to jeopardize the military-technical and energy cooperation between Azerbaijan and Ukraine, Ukrspetsexport is invited to "publicly renounce the fact of an agreement with the Armenian side." At the same time the Armenian company is offered to simulate the appeal to arbitration, "the spread among its environment of sharply negative attitude to the leadership of Ukrspetsexport and the Ukrainian side, as an unreliable supplier."
At the same time head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry proposed to carry out the delivery of Smerch sets in a conspiracy from the territory of Moldova, "using front companies registered in the EU or the CIS."
Marking on the products this should be changed, and in the case of disclosure of fraud to conceal origin of Igla MANPADS by warehouses in Libya, looted by rebels of the liberation movement.

Ukraineâ€™s Foreign Ministry denied information about the sale of rocket launchers to Armenia. APA quotes RIA-Novosty agency as saying that speaker for the ministryâ€™s foreign policy department Alexander Dikusarov said during a briefing today that these materials placed on Internet resources have unknown sources, donâ€™t coincide with truth and have a provocative character.

The ministry official said Ukraine was committed to the international obligations undertaken within the UN and OSCE framework on the issue of development of military cooperation between the countries. â€œNext year, Ukraine will take over the OSCE presidency and will make maximum efforts for security and stability in the regionâ€.