MOSCOW, September 30 (RIA Novosti) - Beijing has halted weapons sales to South Sudan amid allegations that the Chinese government could have sold millions of dollars worth of arms to the war-torn country in an attempt to undermine the peace process, Bloomberg reported Monday.
"No more weapons are heading to South Sudan. There are some media reports that were alleging that the Chinese government was behind this business operation and wants to undermine this peace process. That is totally untrue," Lan Kun, an attaché at the Chinese Embassy in South Sudan, was reported by Bloomberg as saying
In June, China North Industries Group Corp, also known as Norinco, was revealed to have sent to South Sudan arms amounting to $38 million. Since the deal came to light, the government of China deemed it inappropriate to continue the sales.
Violence erupted in South Sudan in December 2013, when President Salva Kiir accused his ex-deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup. Tens of thousands have been killed during the South Sudanese Civil War.
