US biggest developing nations weapons supplier
The US is the largest supplier of weapons to developing nations, delivering more than $9.6bn (€7.86bn) in arms to countries including those in the Near East and Asia in 2004, and boosting worldwide sales to those countries to the highest amount since 2000, a congressional study says.
The total worldwide value of all agreements to sell arms last year was close to $37bn (€30.3bn) and nearly 59% of the agreements were with developing nations, according to the Congressional Research Service report.
