Poland's national defense minister has said he knows nothing about the re-export of Soviet arms to Georgia.Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov last month claimed that "certain new members of NATO" are supplying Georgia with weapons earlier brought to them by the Soviet Union without the right to re-export them.
Radoslaw Sikorski said: "I don't know anything about the re-export of arms from Poland to Georgia. On the other hand, I also don't know that any sanctions have been imposed on Georgia in this respect."
RIA Novosti reports that Sikorki said he could not imagine that during the Soviet era, the re-export of arms from the Polish People's Republic to Soviet territory could have been banned.
"When we were buying weapons within the framework of the Warsaw Pact, Poland was not a sovereign democratic country," adding "Compared with Russia, we are a microscopic exporter of arms."
