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The Belgian Defense Minister answers parliamentary questions about helicopters to Madagascar

Soon on Apache (in French and Dutch), more details on the answers given yesterday by the Belgian Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem about keeping on selling army surplus to a company known for exporting it to problematic lands without propre export licenses. We talked about it on this website. So for some background, you can click here, and here. The parliamentary questions could be read here.

The report of the Defense Commission of this Tuesday 10th of July can be read below.

Compte rendu intégral, commission défense, 10.07.2012

    • #Belgian
    • #army
    • #Belgium
    • #helicopter
    • #Alouette
    • #Agusta
    • #Defense
    • #Madagascar
    • #madagate
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