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Beijing denied today that it provided the Gaddafi regime with weapons in its final days, but said Libyan officials had visited China in July for talks with “interested companies.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ministry was responding to a report in a Canadian newspaper that Beijing offered huge stockpiles of weapons to Libya’s then leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and held secret talks on shipping them through Algeria and South Africa.<\/p>\n

“In July the Gaddafi government sent someone to China without the knowledge of the Chinese government to make contact with the representatives of interested companies,” <\/strong>foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told journalists.<\/p>\n

“Chinese companies have not provided military products to Libya in any direct or indirect form.<\/strong> Chinese companies did not sign arm sales contracts and they did not export military products to Libya.”<\/p>\n

China “does not allow any actions that contravene UN resolutions,” she added.<\/p>\n

Canada’s Globe and Mail reported Sunday that state-controlled companies in China were ready to sell weapons and ammunition worth at least $200 million to Gaddafi in late July, despite UN sanctions<\/strong>, citing secret documents it had obtained.<\/p>\n

They showed that Gaddafi’s top security aides made a trip to Beijing in mid-July<\/strong>, where they met officials from China North Industries Corp. (Norinco); the China National Precision Machinery Import & Export Corp. (CPMIC); and China XinXing Import & Export Corp. <\/p>\n

The Chinese companies offered the entire contents of their stockpiles for sale, and promised to manufacture more supplies if necessary<\/strong>, The Globe and Mail said.<\/p>\n

ohhhh no good! <\/p>\n

China now confirms meeting, but denies supplying.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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