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Bulgaria has exported weaponry to Saudi Arabia, India, USA and Iraq

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Last year Bulgaria exported weapons, munition and defence-related products amounting to 1.219 billion euro, which is 20 percent up on 2016.

The bulk of these exports were to Saudi Arabia, India, USA and Iraq. The total cost of the country’s imports of defence-related commodities is 247 million euro, mostly from Poland, Serbia and Romania, reads a report by the Interministerial Commission for Export Control and Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction with the Minister of Economy, adopted by MPs. 



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