Montenegro sold arms at $ 29 million.
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Montenegro sold arms at $ 29 million.
According to the Ministry of Defense, Montenegro has sold about six tons of various ammunition and about 47,000 weapons and other military equipment over the past ten years.
The total amount for which arms and military equipment were sold amounted to $ 29 million, of which at the moment almost $ 25 million has been collected.
The money from the sale of these assets is subject to crediting to the Montenegrin budget and must be spent in strict accordance with the Law on the Budget, the Ministry of Defense said.
Representatives of the ministry say that over the past three years, according to the law, these funds are an integral part of the budget of the Ministry of Defense and are spent on army modernization, and on implementing partnership goals aimed at increasing the level of compliance with the standards of NATO member countries.
The sold assets are not necessary for the functioning of the army, taking into account that most of these funds due to old age will soon have to be destroyed.
The ministry claims that various types of ammunition were sold: rifle cartridges, mortar charges, artillery shells, anti-tank mines, various types of explosives, ammunition for anti-aircraft artillery and ship cannons.
From the entire list of weapons and military equipment, various types of small arms, mortars and surpluses of various types of guns, armored combat vehicles M83 (BOV-1), armored reconnaissance vehicles BRDM-2, etc., were sold.
According to the ministry, since 2006, the surplus of ammunition has fallen by 80 percent, while the surplus has been reduced by 79 percent.
The remaining 260 tons of ammunition and weapons, which the army does not need, will be sold, and more than a thousand tons of the remaining weapons are planned to be destroyed.
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