Prague, Jan 24 (CTK) – The Czech government will discuss the donation of more than 6500 new and used submachine guns and more than seven million bullets to the Iraqi and Kurdish armed forces and another seven million bullets to Jordan at its meeting on Monday.
The numbers were announced previously.
The plan to supply millions of pieces of ammunition for assault guns and machine guns was conveyed to CTK by Defence Minister Martin Stropnicky on Wednesday.
A total of 3.8 million bullets for assault guns and three million bullets for machine guns are to go to Jordan.
With the ammunition for 14 million crowns, the Czech Republic wants to support Jordan’s armed and security forces.
The transport will be secured by Jordan or with the help of the United States or Britain.
“Jordan is a stable alliance partner. It is a small island of relative peace in the Middle East,” Stropnicky said.
He said the Jordanian Kingdom fundamentally differs from the notion of a Middle East country “and it must be supported in this.”
Stropnicky said Jordan has several women with the general’s rank in its military.
The country is a member of the coalition fighting Islamic State and it takes care of some two million refugees on its territory.
Stropnicky confirmed previously the supply of arms and ammunition to Iraq. Minimally a part of them could go to the Kurds who bear the biggest brunt of the ground operations against Islamic State.
The arms and ammunition is to be handed to Iraq through the United States.
In the past, the Czech Republic gave Iraq and Kurdistan millions of bullets for machine guns, submachine guns, 5000 hand grenades and 5000 RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenades.
