|
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing Russian firms to sell weapons to Iraq`s interim government.
The order was posted on the presidential website Monday.
The document calls such sales part of efforts to fulfill a U.N. Security Council resolution in June that endorsed the interim Iraqi government. It says the transactions are not subject to earlier arms embargoes against Iraq.
The order says the sales of weapons and military equipment are to support the new Iraqi government and multinational forces in the country.
Russia has traditionally had close ties with Iraq and strongly opposed the U.
S.-led war in that country. |
