{"id":250820,"date":"2014-03-18T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=250820"},"modified":"2014-03-18T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:55:10","slug":"azerbaijan-increased-arms-imports-by-378-in-5-years-main-supplier-is-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/18\/azerbaijan-increased-arms-imports-by-378-in-5-years-main-supplier-is-russia.html","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan Increased Arms Imports by 378% in 5 Years. Main Supplier is Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The USA and Russia together accounted for 56% of the volume of arms exports during the five-year period 2009&ndash;2013, according to new data on international arms transfers published on Monday by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe five largest suppliers of major weapons during this period were the United States (29% of global arms exports), Russia (27%), Germany (7%), China (6%) and France (5%). These top 5 suppliers accounted for 74% of the total volume of arms exports worldwide.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Russia has maintained high levels of arms exports despite the crisis in its arms industry in the post-cold war period,&quot; said Siemon Wezeman, Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sipri.org\/media\/pressreleases\/2014\/AT_march_2014\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Mar. 17 SIPI press release<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. &quot;In 2009&ndash;2013 Russia delivered major arms to 52 states. Russia&rsquo;s most significant export in 2013 was of an aircraft carrier to India.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOverall, the volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons grew by 14% between 2004&ndash;08 and 2009&ndash;13.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe largest importer of arms was India (14% of global arms imports), followed by China and Pakistan (5% each).&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe UK was the largest importer of major weapons in Europe (receiving slightly more than 12% of deliveries), followed by Azerbaijan (12%) and Greece (11%). Imports by Azerbaijan increased by 378% between 2004&ndash;2008 and 2009&ndash;2013, with Russia accounting for 80% of Azerbaijan&rsquo;s arms imports, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.sipri.org\/product_info?c_product_id=475\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>SIPRI report<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA and Russia together accounted for 56% of the volume of arms exports during the five-year period 2009\u20132013.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[54101,39586,10265,10254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}