BELGRADE: ARMS EXPORT AFFAIR CLOSED

BELGRADE, Nov 4 (Hina) - Yugoslav Interior Minister and chairman of a federal commission investigating the so-called "Jugoimport affair" and the export of weapons to Iraq, Zoran Zivkovic, said on Monday that people responsible for the affair had been suspended. #L# Zivkovic also confirmed that protocols on cooperation with Iraq of which the Yugoslav government had had no knowledge were discovered, adding that old laws would be promptly amended to prevent similar incidents from reoccurring. "The federal commission has established that there were cases of violation of the UN Security Council Resolution banning the export of weapons and military equipment to Iraq, primarily due to imprecise regulations which allowed different interpretations," Zivkovic said in an interview with Monday's "Vecernje novosti" daily. Zivkovic cited examples of violation of the resolution such as the overhaul and transport of Iraq's MIG 21 and 23 jet engines and the provision of some services from the military industry. Yugoslavia could not have produced cruise missiles because that requires high technology which the country lacks, Zivkovic said among other things. (hina) rml sb