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Czechs to send guns, ammunition to Jordan and Iraq to fight Daesh
By Reuters - Jan 25,2016 - Last updated at Jan 25,2016
PRAGUE — The Czech government voted on Monday to send guns and ammunition to Iraq and Jordan to support the fight against the Daesh terror group, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said.
Ministers agreed to send 6,500 new and used automatic rifles and some 7 million rounds of ammunition to Iraq via the US government, and a separate shipment of ammunition to Jordan.
“The fight against the Islamic State [Daesh] is an important part of solving the migration crisis that is hitting Europe,” Sobotka said in a statement.
The NATO member has already supplied guns and ammunition to Kurdish forces in Iraq fighting insurgents, and agreed last year to sell surplus subsonic fighter jets to the Iraqi government.
The Czechs and their central European peers have stressed strong border protection and ending conflicts in the Middle East as the main ways to solving Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War II and have refused to accept European Union quotas for distributing migrants.
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