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Bulgaria denies sanctions busting

    JOHANNESBURG

    Bulgaria said on Tuesday that a government commission had found no evidence that Sofia had breached UN arms sanctions on UNITA rebels in Angola.

    “We have come to the conclusion that Bulgaria cannot be charged with violating the UN embargo,” Justice Minister Teodossyi Simeonov told a news conference. Arms export laws would however be tightened.

    A report by a UN Panel of Experts said in March that Bulgaria, along with other countries, had supplied weapons to UNITA since 1997.

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