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Read the article, opening the brackets and using the correct verb-forms. Translate into Russian. Russia to become Iraq's second-biggest arms supplier Iraq (1 sign) contracts to buy Russian arms worth $4.2bn this year, Russian news agencies report. Moscow, the main supplier of arms to Iraq under Saddam Hussein, thus becomes the country's second-biggest arms supplier after the US. The new contracts (2 announce) after talks between the two countries' prime ministers near Moscow on Tuesday. Iraq (3 rebuild) its armed forces since the end of US-led combat operations against insurgents. The contracts (4 negotiate) during Iraq's acting Defence Minister visits to Russia in April, July and August 2012. "The delegation members (5 familiarize) themselves with the Russian military production, (6 discuss) the technical and commercial options of the offer with Rosoboronexport, and (7 sign) contracts worth more than $4.2bn," said a joint statement by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Iraqi counterpart, Nouri Maliki. Earlier this week, Mr Maliki explained in a speech that he (8 not want) Iraq to be "part of someone else's arms export monopoly." "We have good relations with the United States and Iran. We (9 not want) to live surrounded by constant conflict. We regularly (10 buy) weapons based on the needs that we feel we have," he added.