Brazil's Chamber of Foreign Trade approved on Tuesday official guarantees for the sale of 100 missiles to Pakistan.
The missiles, to be produced by Mectron, a company from Sao Jose dos Campos, in Sao Paulo state, would equip aircraft to detect and destroy radars, local media reported.
The sale was negotiated in April between the Pakistani government, the Brazilian Air Force and Mectron, but it needed approval from the Brazilian authorities to be completed.
After the meeting of the Chamber of Foreign Trade, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said this was a transaction between two countries.
"It's a very effective tool, which monitors land from airspace, locates and destroys if an order is given," he said.
According to the minister, the recent bombings in Mumbai, India, wouldn't affect the approval of the official guarantees for the transaction.
"I do not know whether the terrorists (involved in the Mumbai bombings) are Pakistanis, but the business we are doing is with the (Pakistani) government, not with terrorists," he said.
The missiles would cost 85 million euros.
Source:Xinhua
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