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India: Sanctioned Firm Reportedly Sent Equipment to Iraq, Official Says An Indian firm, recently sanctioned by the United States, sent weapons-building equipment to Iraq, a U.S. State Department spokesman said yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 19). State Department spokesman Richard Boucher yesterday cited Indian media reports that NEC Engineers Private has shipped titanium vessels, filters, titanium centrifugal pumps, atomized and spherical aluminum powder, and titanium anodes to Baghdad. Indian press reports indicated that NEC sent a total of 10 shipments to Iraq, Boucher said. The sanctions, which were also leveled against the firm’s president Hans Raj Shiv, do not apply to the Indian government, Boucher added. India has been helpful with its “efforts to halt Indian entities from engaging in illicit activities with (weapons of mass destruction) and missile programs in the Middle East and elsewhere,” according to Boucher. Indian officials have been investigating NEC and have tried “to prevent further proliferant exports and have arrested two principals of the company,” he added. “Unfortunately, NEC and Shiv have shifted operations to other locations,” Boucher said. “We hope our actions will support the steps India is taking, and will encourage other governments to take similar steps,” Boucher said (Nicholas Kralev, Washington Times, Feb. 20).
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