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03/18/2005:

"Ukraine admits it sold cruise missiles to Iran, China"

Ukraine has sold nuclear-capable cruise missiles to both China and Iran, the prosecutor-general's office said but stressed that the deals were illegal and under criminal investigation.

"This is not about exports of missiles but rather illegal sales which are being investigated by the SBU (security service) which has opened a criminal investigation of the director of the company Ukraviazakas," the office said in a statement confirming a report by the London-based Financial Times.

Svyatoslav Piskun, Ukraine's prosecutor general, earlier told the daily that 18 Soviet-era X-55 cruise missiles were exported in 2001 -- 12 to Iran and six to China.
Full Article: sg.news.yahoo