KL denies CNN's report on Bosnia

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.