Foreign Affairs
The Swedish government asked Venezuela for an explanation about the seizure from the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) of Swedish weapons sold to Caracas, a Swedish government officer told AFP on Monday.

"We have it confirmed that a smaller amount of (defense) material made in Sweden has been found in a FARC camp. We have asked the officials of the government of Venezuela to give us information on how they believe this material was found in Colombia," said Jens Eriksson, a political advisor to the Swedish ministry of commerce.

According to Eriksson, the weapons found had been sold to Venezuela, AFP quoted.

Last week, Jane's, a London magazine specialized in defense matters, disclosed that the Colombian army had seized an undefined number of anti-tank rocket-launchers in FARC camps that were presumably originally sold by a Swedish manufacturer to the Venezuelan army.

The English journal specified that the AT4 rocket-launchers were manufactured by Swedish company Saab Bofors Dynamics.