Moscow, December 18 (Interfax) - The situation around the detention in Thailand of the Il-76 aircraft with weapons on board could implicate Georgia and Ukraine in illegal arms trade, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"According to unofficial reports that we can neither confirm nor deny, this was a Georgian plane bound for Ukraine. I will not hide suspicions about this nations’ involvement in illegal arms trade," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said at a briefing on Dec. 18.
Such suspicions cannot but raise concerns for well-known reasons, he said.
It was reported earlier that the Il-76 was heading from North Korea to a third country with illegal weapons and explosive substances on board.
The sanction imposed by the United Nations Security Council resolution N1874, which bans the transportation of weapons from North Korea, is working efficiently, Nesterenko also said.
