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Ukraine on Tuesday dismissed as "groundless" US media reports that arms dealers in the country sold anti-tank missiles to Iraq.
"This is nothing more than another attempt to discredit our country," Foreign Ministry spokesman Markian Lybkivskyi told a news conference.
Repeated accusations that Ukraine sold arms to Iraq had proved "groundless," the spokesman said, noting that his country had never violated UN sanctions and sold no weapons to Iraq.
The US magazine Newsweek reported earlier this week that Ukrainian arms dealers sold about 500 Russia-made Kornet anti-tank missiles to Iraq in January.
Two US heavy tanks have been destroyed by these missiles and the United States was upset, the magazine quoted US military sources as saying.
The report of alleged missile sales was the third time Ukraine has been accused by the United States of violating UN sanctions imposed on Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War.
(Xinhua News Agency April 2, 2003)
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