Trenta asks abt Saudi arms

(ANSA) - Rome, September 17 - Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta on Monday asked for clarification on Italian arms recently sold to Saudi Arabia.
    Trenta said that if the exports breached a 1990 law, she would ask the foreign ministry "to immediately stop the exports, and cancel the relevant contracts".
    She stressed that the contracts had been "signed and carried forward by the previous government".
    Trenta thanked the media for highlighting the possible breaches.