{"id":15823,"date":"2019-01-23T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mustaqbalradio.net\/?p=15823"},"modified":"2019-01-23T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T04:14:10","slug":"russia-ready-to-sell-arms-to-somalia-after-sanctions-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/russia-ready-to-sell-arms-to-somalia-after-sanctions-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Ready to Sell Arms to Somalia After Sanctions Lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is ready to\u00a0fulfill weapons sales requests from\u00a0any country including Somalia, once the sanctions imposed on\u00a0it are lifted, a senior spokesman of\u00a0the Federal Service for\u00a0Military-Technical Cooperation said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia is ready to\u00a0satisfy requests for\u00a0arms deliveries from\u00a0all countries, including Somalia, should they not be subjected to\u00a0sanctions,&#8221; the official told RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Mogadishu would like\u00a0Moscow&#8217;s support in\u00a0developing the Somali economy and strengthening its armed forces. Russia is ready to\u00a0consider\u00a0cooperating with\u00a0Somalia in\u00a0the military-technical field, according to\u00a0Lavrov.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Security Council introduced an arms embargo on\u00a0Somalia in\u00a0January 1992. The move followed the outbreak of\u00a0the ongoing Somali Civil War. Today, parts of\u00a0southern Somalia are controlled by\u00a0the al-Qaeda affiliated\u00a0al-Shabaab\u00a0group, while piracy off\u00a0the coast of\u00a0Somalia has been a threat to\u00a0international shipping since\u00a0around 2005, with\u00a0most pirate attacks concentrated in\u00a0the Gulf of\u00a0Aden<\/p>\n<p>Source: Sputnik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is ready to\u00a0fulfill weapons sales requests from\u00a0any country including Somalia, once the sanctions imposed on\u00a0it are lifted, a senior spokesman of\u00a0the Federal Service for\u00a0Military-Technical Cooperation said Wednesday. &#8220;Russia is ready to\u00a0satisfy requests for\u00a0arms deliveries from\u00a0all countries, including Somalia, should they not be subjected to\u00a0sanctions,&#8221; the official told RIA Novosti. On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}