BAGHDAD, Dec 6 (NNN-NINA) – Iraq has set up a National Data Bank for Weapons, to tighten state control over arms, and help strengthen international tracking.
Major General Mansour Ali Sultan, rapporteur of the Interior Ministry’s State Arms Control Committee, said that, the measure is part of the government’s weapons-regulation programme. The newly established unified database, covers government-owned weapons, as well as, arms seized or confiscated during operations.
“Iraq has, for the first time, joined the international weapons-tracking database, enabling the tracking of stolen weapons, both inside and outside the country,” he said.
Sultan added that, 42,237 weapons were withdrawn from civilian ministries in Baghdad and other provinces this year.– NNN-NINA