Iraq's defence ministry will buy new weapons worth more than 1.5 billion dollars (1.11 billion euros), including helicopters and US rifles, the minister announced on Monday.
The purchases will be made possible by a 26 percent increase in the country's defence budget.
"The Iraqi government has signed a contract with the American government to set up a foreign weapons sales office to buy weapons that Iraq needs," Defence Minister Abdel Qader Jassim Mohammed said at a Baghdad press conference.
"This programme will help Iraq to buy modern weapons and to ensure arrival of these weapons when the ministry asks for them," he added.
[AFP]
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