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Monday, February 1, 2010

Libya inks arms deal with Russia

2010-01-31

Libya on Friday (January 29th) concluded an arms deal with Russia worth 1.3 billion euros, international press quoted Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as saying on Saturday. No information was released as to the type of weapons. Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, however, that Libya was ready to purchase from Russia "20 fighter planes, not less than two divisions of S-300PMU2 air defense systems [and] several dozen T-90S tanks".

Source: Magharebia.com
Link: http://magharebia.com/en_GB/articles/awi/newsbriefs/general/2010/01/31/newsbrief-05.

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