Arms supplies to Georgia legal - NATO official

MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax) - NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai has said that he has no information about arms sales to Georgia by individual NATO member-states but that if those deals exist, they are legal.

First, it should be noted that NATO is not arming anyone, he said on Ekho Moskvy radio on Monday.

NATO, as an organization, does not sell weapons, but individual member-states do have a right to sell weapons whoever they want to as long as these sales meet international norms, Appathurai said.

He added that at present there are no international restrictions on weapons supplies to Georgia.