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Dnestr Region Admits Small Arms Production, Denies Arms Trade
5 March 2004
Itar-Tass
CHISINAU — President of the breakaway Dnestr region of Moldova Igor Smirnov admitted the production of small batches of weapons for the needs of the region, but denied any arms trade.
"Dnestr enterprises produced small batches of products of military designation" for the armed forces of the self-proclaimed republic. "However we never traded the products, as we lack them for our own needs", Smirnov said Thursday.
He was replying to concerns voiced in Chisinau... (GunPolicy.org)