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Urgent: Russia ready to supply weapons to Afghanistan

Xinhua, December 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Russia is ready to supply arms to Afghanistan, Russian special presidential envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said on Wednesday.

"We are ready to deliver weapons, but we will do it carefully and mainly on a commercial basis," Interfax news agency quoted Kabulov as saying.

Earlier media reports said that Afghanistan had turned to Russia with a request for arms supply. Endi