The Slovak Defense Ministry will send further redundant weapons to Afghanistan as a gift, local media said on Monday.

The Slovak military will send about 20 automatic rifles, two machine guns, 30 military compasses and 1,000 rounds of ammunition to Afghanistan, part of which will be transported by the United States, the report said.

Slovakia promised Afghanistan military material in 2003 at the donors' conference on the reconstruction of Afghanistan in Berlin. The agreement on the redundant weapons was signed by the two countries at the beginning of 2006.

Then Slovakia decided to send 2,200 tons of military materiel, worth of 455 million Slovak crowns (17.2 million U.S. dollars) to Afghanistan as a gift as well as other weapons.

Since 2004, Slovakia deployed 60 sappers in Afghanistan. The Defense Ministry is considering sending several Slovak doctors to Afghanistan where they will work in a Czech military hospital.

The government is also asked to send pilots to Afghanistan to reinforce the Czech helicopter crews, who will lead the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan next year.

Source: Xinhua