Moldova insists that a plane carrying 60 tons of weapons belongs to Armenia. OMEGA reported that an Il-76 from Libya landed at the airport of Kishinev on September 12. It then headed to the airfield of Merkuleshty to pick up cargo from a Latvian company registered in Riga. 60 tons of weapons were sold in September. Two Libyan planes transported weapons on September 13 and 14. The head of the press-service of the Moldovan Defense Ministry, Alexander Zhosan, said that the cargo consisted of artillery and anti-missile systems.
Vice-Premier and Minister of the Economy Valery Lazer said that the Armenian air authorities denied the arguments. The press secretary of the Armenian Administration of Civil Aviation said that the Libya-Moldova flight with weapons never happened.
The plane flew from Benghazi to Kishinev three days after Prime Minister Vladimir Filat’s visit to Germany for a visit with President of Trans-Dniester Igor Smirnov.
