The Czech government voted on Monday to send guns and ammunition to Iraq and Jordan to support the fight against Islamic State, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said.
Ministers
agreed to send 6,500 new and used automatic rifles and some 7 million
rounds of ammunition to Iraq via the U.S. government, and a separate
shipment of ammunition to Jordan.
"The fight against Islamic State is an important part of solving the migration crisis that is hitting Europe," Sobotka said in a statement.
The NATO
member has already supplied guns and ammunition to Kurdish forces in
Iraq fighting insurgents, and agreed last year to sell surplus subsonic
fighter jets to the Iraqi government.
The Czechs
and their central European peers have stressed strong border protection
and ending conflicts in the Middle East as the main way to solving
Europe's worst migration crisis since World War Two and have refused to accept European Union quotas for distributing migrants.
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