Can't sell mines, fund anti-mine NGOs

(ANSA) - Turin, September 22 - Italy cannot at the same time sell anti-personnel mines to other countries and then pay NGOs to clear mines, the secretary-general of the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI), Cardinal Nunzio Galantino, said Tuesday. CEI No.2 Galantino recalled that Italy is among the world's leading exporters of arms. "These contradictions must be highlighted," he said. Italy is the world's ninth-biggest exporter of arms, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.