Foreign Affairs
Swedish arms manufacturer Saab AB regretted on Monday that its military equipments ended up arming the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and labeled the event as "annoying."

"It is always annoying when this happens," said Tomas Samuelsson, Chief Executive Officer of Saab Bofors Dynamics, a subsidiary of Saab AB and manufacturer of the AT4 anti-tank rocket-launchers.

However, he did not take an outspoken stance on the seizure by the Colombian army of an undefined number of artifacts in FARC camps.

"All countries that we export to, have to sign an 'end user' certificate otherwise export will not be permitted. Unfortunately, sometimes a weapon shows up where it should not be but that is very rare. When that happens, it is normally theft," Samuelsson said in an e-mail sent to AFP.

Last Sunday, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe claimed that the FARC "had obtained trademark rocket-launchers on international arms markets, in the international community," and that his government had "lodged a complaint through diplomatic channels with the appropriate countries," without mentioning which ones.