(Guardian-UK) Ben Butler - The Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems has denied producing cluster munitions after Australia's sovereign wealth fund and Norway's largest pension fund, KLP, banned investment in the company. In 2018, Elbit took over IMI Systems, formerly known as Israeli Military Industries, which previously produced the weapons. In a Feb. 15 letter to Guardian Australia, Elbit's chief legal officer and executive vice president, Jonathan Ariel, said Elbit "has never been engaged in the production or sale of cluster munitions. Following the acquisition of IMI Systems Ltd in 2018, Elbit Systems discontinued all activities of IMI relating to IMI's legacy cluster munitions" in compliance with the international convention banning cluster munitions.
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