http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/p/2008-01-26/1139483042.html
俄羅斯警告北約不許再仿製AK-47步槍
http://www.sina.com.cn 2008年01月26日 11:39 新華網
新華網消息 據路透社報導,俄羅斯1月24日譴責北約對於其成員國的工廠沒有獲得正當授權就生產蘇聯設計的卡拉什尼科夫步槍一事熟視無睹。俄方表示要索賠。
俄羅斯人以卡拉什尼科夫步槍為榮。它是俄羅斯最為成功的技術出口產品之一。從第一支卡拉什尼科夫步槍1947年在俄羅斯中部地區下線以來,它的地位已經提升到神聖的地步。
這種步槍結構堅固而又易於操作,這使其成為世界各地的軍隊和遊擊隊的首選武器。
現在,俄羅斯常駐北約代表德米特裏•羅戈津一再譴責說,卡拉什尼科夫步槍(又名AK-47)是如此成功的出口產品,以至於北約成員中莫斯科的前共產主義盟國控制的企業沒有獲得正當授權就仿造這種產品。
羅戈津在莫斯科舉行的有關俄羅斯—北約關係的新聞發佈會上說:“我們需要弄清楚俄羅斯聯邦和最初生產AK-47的公司損失了多少錢。如果我們發現俄羅斯需要得到賠償,那麼這個問題隨後就會討論到。”
羅戈津給出一份名單,上面列出了北約國家中生產這種步槍的工廠。這些工廠仿製的成千上萬支AK-47出口到中東、非洲和亞洲等地。
http://en.rian.ru/world/20080124/97667305.html
Russia's envoy poised for military patent discussions with NATO
16:04 | 24/ 01/ 2008
MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti) - The new Russian ambassador to NATO has raised the issue of military patent infringement and promised to look into the production of the famous 'Kalashnikov' brand of automatic weapons by NATO countries.
"As I was preparing to take up my new post, I was astonished at the disrespect for proprietary rights in the field of armaments," Dmitry Rogozin told a news conference on Thursday.
"Copyright law should not be only confined to art and culture, but must also cover armaments," he said.
He said many countries, including some NATO and European Union members, produced Kalashnikov weapons. "We will find out on what licenses and agreements the production and supply of our automatic weapons is based and how much money the Russian Federation has lost," he added.
He said the arms plant Arsenal in Bulgaria had sold 10,000 AK-47 Kalashnikov automatic rifles to Turkmenistan in 1994 and 60,000 in 2005, as well as 40,000 to Iraq in 2003. The plant also supplied arms to Georgia, Afghanistan, Indonesia and United Arab Emirates under multimillion-dollar contracts, the official added.
Rogozin said the plant's branch in the U.S. state of Nevada had also sold 10,000 Kalashnikov-based semi-automatic weapons and that a Polish foreign trade association had sold 10,000 Kalashnikov weapons to Iraq.
"The same concerns Hungary, Romania and others," he said pointing that "these are respected countries, member states of NATO and the European Union."
Rogozin said the issue would see "serious discussions" if it was established that these countries had produced the weapons illegally and without due payments to Russia.
Rogozin, who starts work at NATO's HQ in Brussels on January 28, stressed that there were norms and restrictions to be complied with by all NATO and EU countries.
A former chairman of the lower house committee for foreign affairs, Rogozin was earlier considered a pro-Kremlin politician and held the post of presidential envoy to the Kaliningrad Region, a Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania. He also formerly led the nationalist bloc Rodina (Motherland).
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