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KL denies CNN's report on Bosnia

| Source: AFP

KL denies CNN's report on Bosnia

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia denied yesterday that it was
planning to defy a UN embargo and supply weapons to Bosnia in a
bid to save Moslems in the rump Yugoslav state from Serb
aggression.

"We are not in the gun running business," the Bernama news
agency quoted Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad as saying in
response to a Cable News Network (CNN) report that Kuala Lumpur
planned to arm Bosnia's Moslems.

The CNN had reported that Malaysia, Iran and Turkey were
considering supplying weapons to Bosnian Moslems as part of
efforts to defend them from genocide at the hands of Serbs.

But Mahathir said Malaysia had so far only provided arms to
its 1,500 troops in Bosnia, and had no intention of extending the
facility to Bosnian soldiers.

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