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Article: NORWAY: INSURANCE FIRM DISAVOWS ARMS SHIPMENT TO ZIMBABWE
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- April 23, 2008
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Tarjei Kidd Olsen
Inter Press Service English News Wire
04-23-2008
OSLO, Norway, Apr. 22, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A Norwegian marine
insurance company has decried the attempt of one of its clients,
a Chinese cargo shipping company, to transport weapons to Zimbabwe.
The Norwegian company's provision of insurance to the
internationally condemned cargo ship may be illegal, according to
Norweigian law. A company spokesman has condemned the transport,
adding that they it not know the ship was carrying weapons.
The Chinese-controlled An Yue Jiang is reportedly carrying 3
million rounds of ammunition, 1,500 rocket-propelled grenades and
2,500 mortar rounds destined for President Robert Mugabe's
Zimbabwe, ...