In recent weeks the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, Chinese arms companies offered to sell about 200 million dollars (£ 124 million) worth of military hardware to the government of Muammar Gaddafi, in violation of an arms embargo the UN according to the documents found in Tripoli.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China has confirmed that Libyan officials traveled to Beijing to buy arms in July, but said no contracts were signed and delivered without arms.
A spokesman said the Chinese government had not known about the meetings of the state-owned enterprises.
According to documents obtained by the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail, Chinese companies offered to sell rocket launchers, antitank missiles and other weapons.
The document called for companies such as China North Industries Corporation (Norinco), Precision Machinery Company of China Import and Export of China Xinxing Import and Export Company.
The companies could not be reached or said no one was available for comment.
He suggested that companies could make deals through third countries such as Algeria or South Africa, who had said he supports the arms embargo.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, Mourad Medelci said last week that the country had "decided to apply" the terms of UN resolutions.
Omar Hariri, the head of the commission of the military rebels, told the newspaper he was "almost certain" that the guns arrived and were used against him, saying that explains how new weapons had reached the battlefield.
"We have strong evidence agreements in place between China and Qaddafi, and we have all the documents to prove it," said a rebel military spokesman Abdulrahman Busin The New York Times. He added that there was no evidence of "at least ten" other governments or companies illegally supplying arms to Qaddafi.
The Globe and Mail reporter Graeme Smith said he found the documents, printed on paper of a department of government procurement, the trash in a neighborhood where many officials had lived.
"After the adoption of resolution 1970 the Security Council, we notified the relevant government departments to implement it strictly," said ministry spokesman of Foreign Affairs of China, Jiang Yu, told a daily press in Beijing.
"We have clarified with the competent bodies in July, Gaddafi's government sent people to China without the knowledge of the Chinese government and engaged in contact with a handful of people from the companies concerned.
"Chinese companies did not sign arms trade contacts, and not exporting military goods to Libya.
"I think the agencies responsible for arms trade was doubtless seriously."
In 2003, the U.S. imposed sanctions on one of the companies involved, Norinco, alleging that it had sold missile parts to Iran. The company said the allegations were "unfounded and unjustified."
China Xinxing Import and export of the company was founded in 1984 under the People's Liberation Army and has signed agreements with more than 100 countries, according to its website.
The news comes at a sensitive moment for Beijing, which has sought to improve relations with the rebels in Libya. Last month, an official of a rebel oil company suggested they might freeze to countries that had supported.
China - which, as a permanent member of the Security Council of the UN, has veto power - surprised many by supporting the gun ban in February and the abstention from voting on the NATO bombing.
However, later condemned the attack and has not formally recognized the National Transitional Council (CNT) as the legitimate authority in Libya, although it has held talks with the rebels and said the NTC values "important role" .
China is the third largest importer of oil from Libya, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Jiang Yu, said last week that he was "willing to maintain close contact" with the NTC.
But this weekend, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the head of the NTC, complained that China had blocked the release of some of the frozen assets in Libya.
China had agreed to $ 15 billion of Libyan assets abroad should be thawed, but a rebel spokesman said he had opposed giving up control over the interim governing council.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China has confirmed that Libyan officials traveled to Beijing to buy arms in July, but said no contracts were signed and delivered without arms.
A spokesman said the Chinese government had not known about the meetings of the state-owned enterprises.
According to documents obtained by the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail, Chinese companies offered to sell rocket launchers, antitank missiles and other weapons.
The document called for companies such as China North Industries Corporation (Norinco), Precision Machinery Company of China Import and Export of China Xinxing Import and Export Company.
The companies could not be reached or said no one was available for comment.
He suggested that companies could make deals through third countries such as Algeria or South Africa, who had said he supports the arms embargo.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, Mourad Medelci said last week that the country had "decided to apply" the terms of UN resolutions.
Omar Hariri, the head of the commission of the military rebels, told the newspaper he was "almost certain" that the guns arrived and were used against him, saying that explains how new weapons had reached the battlefield.
"We have strong evidence agreements in place between China and Qaddafi, and we have all the documents to prove it," said a rebel military spokesman Abdulrahman Busin The New York Times. He added that there was no evidence of "at least ten" other governments or companies illegally supplying arms to Qaddafi.
The Globe and Mail reporter Graeme Smith said he found the documents, printed on paper of a department of government procurement, the trash in a neighborhood where many officials had lived.
"After the adoption of resolution 1970 the Security Council, we notified the relevant government departments to implement it strictly," said ministry spokesman of Foreign Affairs of China, Jiang Yu, told a daily press in Beijing.
"We have clarified with the competent bodies in July, Gaddafi's government sent people to China without the knowledge of the Chinese government and engaged in contact with a handful of people from the companies concerned.
"Chinese companies did not sign arms trade contacts, and not exporting military goods to Libya.
"I think the agencies responsible for arms trade was doubtless seriously."
In 2003, the U.S. imposed sanctions on one of the companies involved, Norinco, alleging that it had sold missile parts to Iran. The company said the allegations were "unfounded and unjustified."
China Xinxing Import and export of the company was founded in 1984 under the People's Liberation Army and has signed agreements with more than 100 countries, according to its website.
The news comes at a sensitive moment for Beijing, which has sought to improve relations with the rebels in Libya. Last month, an official of a rebel oil company suggested they might freeze to countries that had supported.
China - which, as a permanent member of the Security Council of the UN, has veto power - surprised many by supporting the gun ban in February and the abstention from voting on the NATO bombing.
However, later condemned the attack and has not formally recognized the National Transitional Council (CNT) as the legitimate authority in Libya, although it has held talks with the rebels and said the NTC values "important role" .
China is the third largest importer of oil from Libya, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Jiang Yu, said last week that he was "willing to maintain close contact" with the NTC.
But this weekend, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the head of the NTC, complained that China had blocked the release of some of the frozen assets in Libya.
China had agreed to $ 15 billion of Libyan assets abroad should be thawed, but a rebel spokesman said he had opposed giving up control over the interim governing council.
