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发帖数: 7918 | 1 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/world/asia/06china.html
September 5, 2011
Beijing Says Qaddafi Officials Sought Chinese Arms Supplies
By MICHAEL WINES
BEIJING — China’s Foreign Ministry admitted on Monday that state-run arms
companies met Libyan officials this summer to broker arms sales to Col.
Muammar el-Qaddafi’s besieged regime, apparently confirming information in
Libyan government documents found by a Canadian journalist in Tripoli.
But a ministry spokeswoman denied that Chinese government officials knew of
the talks, and said that no arms were delivered to the Qaddafi regime,
either directly or through third parties.
“Chinese companies have not signed any military or trade contracts with
Libya, let alone provided military exports to Libya,” the spokeswoman,
Zhang Qiyue, said at the ministry’s daily briefing. “China exercises
strict management over all military exports.
“Relevant Chinese government departments with responsibilities over
military exports will take this matter seriously,” she said.
Officials of Libya’s transitional government had expressed outrage over the
documents, which were first reported by The Globe and Mail of Toronto. The
records indicate that, during meeting in Beijing in mid-July, Chinese arms
merchants sought to sell Qaddafi representatives $200 million worth of
sophisticated weapons, including portable surface-to-air missiles similar to
the American-made Stinger that potentially could bring down certain
military aircraft.
Chinese arms brokers suggested that the weapons be delivered via South
Africa or Algeria, and said that Algeria’s existing stock of Chinese arms
could be immediately transferred to Libya and replenished by fresh shipments
from China.
The Chinese spokeswoman, Ms. Zhang, did not say why the arms deals were not
completed, but she noted that all arms sales must win government approval
before the weapons are exported.
The Chinese government abstained in March from the United Nations resolution
that authorized “all necessary measures” to protect Libyan civilians, the
basis of NATO’s support for rebel forces. But China joined an earlier
unanimous vote to approve United Nations resolution 1970, which banned
military assistance to the Qaddafi government. China normally opposes
sanctions but said at the time that civilian casualties in the Libyan
conflict merited the embargo.
“As far as I know, since the adoption of United Nations Security Council
resolution 1970, Chinese companies have not provided military equipment to
Libya, directly or indirectly,” Ms. Zhang said on Monday.
Whether the Chinese government’s denials would satisfy the Libyan rebels
was not clear. Relations between China and the new National Transitional
Council already have been soured by China’s reluctance to follow the rest
of the United Nations Security Council in recognizing the new government.
China has said that it would fully back United Nations efforts to rebuild
Libya’s war-damaged infrastructure.
Omar Hariri, who heads the transitional government’s military council, told
The Globe and Mail last Friday that he was “almost certain that these guns
arrived and were used against our people.” A Libyan military spokesman,
Abdulrahman Busin, said on Sunday that the rebels “have hard evidence of
deals going on between China and Qaddafi,” as well as deals with other
governments.
But the arms-sale documents, found in a trash heap in a Tripoli neighborhood
once occupied by wealthy Qaddafi supporters, indicate only that
negotiations took place, and offer no hint as to their conclusion.
The Libyan documents were written on the letterhead of the Qaddafi
government Supply Authority, a procurement agency. They detailed meetings in
Beijing with officials from three Chinese state-run weapons companies:
China North Industries Corporation, known as Norinco; China National
Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation, known as CPMIEC, and China
Xinxing Import and Export Corporation.
Norinco’s Web site states that the company makes “precision strike systems
” and other weapons, including antiaircraft missiles and small arms. CPMIEC
, a maker of shoulder-launched antiaircraft systems and other missiles, was
sanctioned in the 1990s and early 2000s by the United States for supplying
prohibited weapons technology to Pakistan and Iran. Xinxing largely makes
body armor and other military gear. | b*****t
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: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/world/asia/06china.html
: September 5, 2011
: Beijing Says Qaddafi Officials Sought Chinese Arms Supplies
: By MICHAEL WINES
: BEIJING — China’s Foreign Ministry admitted on Monday that state-run arms
: companies met Libyan officials this summer to broker arms sales to Col.
: Muammar el-Qaddafi’s besieged regime, apparently confirming information in
: Libyan government documents found by a Canadian journalist in Tripoli.
: But a ministry spokeswoman denied that Chinese government officials knew of
: the talks, and said that no arms were delivered to the Qaddafi regime,
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