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South Africa says no illegal arms went to Angola

    JOHANNESBURG

    The South African government said this week there had been no breaches of arms control procedures that could have led to South African weapons illegally reaching Angola or the Great Lakes region.

    Kadar Asmal, chairman of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) told a news conference that although the NCACC did not have "official knowledge" of illegal arms shipments, there had indeed been instances of weapons exported legally finding their way to third countries. He gave no further details.

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