Re: China offered Gadhafi huge stockpiles of arms: Libyan memos [Update: Chinese FM acknowledges]

On Sep 4, 4:21 pm, Demorising <demoris...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
China offered Gadhafi huge stockpiles of arms: Libyan memos

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/china-offere...

China offered huge stockpiles of weapons to Colonel Moammar Gadhafi
during the final months of his regime, according to papers that
describe secret talks about shipments via Algeria and South Africa.

Documents obtained by The Globe and Mail show that state-controlled
Chinese arms manufacturers were prepared to sell weapons and
ammunition worth at least $200-million to the embattled Col. Gadhafi
in late July, a violation of United Nations sanctions.

The documents suggest that Beijing and other governments may have
played a double game in the Libyan war, claiming neutrality but
covertly helping the dictator.

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China Scores Fatal Own Goals in Competition for post-Gathafi Libya

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=47913

A document disclosed this weekend testifies to China preparing to
supply as late as July weapons in violation of United Nations
sanctions to Libyan leader Moammar Gathafi’s forces who were locked
into battle with NATO-backed rebel forces. Adding fuel to the fire,
the head of Libya's rebel Transition National Council (TNC), Mustafa
Abdel Jalil, has accused China of blocking the release of his
country’s frozen assets.

China acknowledges Libya arms talks

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/09/201195102810643671.html

Chinese companies held talks with representatives of Muammar Gaddafi's
forces in July over weapons sales, but behind the government's back,
the Chinese foreign ministry has said.

The ministry confirmed on Monday reports in two newspapers, the Globe
and Mail and the New York Times, that documents found in the Libyan
capital, Tripoli, indicated that Chinese companies offered to sell
rocket launchers, anti-tank missiles and other arms totalling some
$200m to Gaddafi's forces, despite a UN ban on such sales.

"We have clarified with the relevant agencies that in July the Gaddafi
government sent personnel to China without the knowledge of the
Chinese government and they engaged in contact with a handful of
people from the companies concerned," Jiang Yu, a ministry spokesman,
said in Beijing.

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China Sought to Sell Arms to Qaddafi, Documents Suggest

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/africa/05libya.html

The documents, including a memo from Libyan security officials
detailing a shopping trip to Beijing on July 16, appear to show that
state-controlled Chinese arms companies offered to sell $200 million
worth of rocket launchers, antitank missiles, portable surface-to-air
missiles designed to bring down aircraft, and other weapons and
munitions.
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