MINSK, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - The Belarusian president
denied on Friday the country had any plans to sell weapons to
Syria or Iran.
Earlier this month some Russian and foreign media reported
Belarus was planning to sell S-300 surface-to-air missiles and
Iskander tactical missile systems to Iran, and said that Tehran
had arranged to transfer some of the systems to Syria.
"As far as S-300 and Iskander [missiles] are concerned,
these complexes cannot be exported without my approval. There
is not a single contract or project related to these systems
that I have been asked to approve. This is utter nonsense,"
Alexander Lukashenko said.
He added that Belarus "has no Iskander missiles, while
S-300s are all in operational service."
The latest version of the S-300 family is the S-300PMU2
Favorit, which has a range of up to 195 kilometers (about 120
miles) and can intercept aircraft and ballistic missiles at
altitudes from 10 meters to 27 kilometers.
The Iskander-M system (NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) is
equipped with two solid-propellant single-stage 9M723K1 guided
missiles with "quasi-ballistic" capability.
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