An exercise with F-16s at Volkel Air Base. Netherlands would also like to send a contribution to the “coalition of the willing” to fight. IS jets Photo ANP / Robin Lonkhuijsen
Netherlands will provide F-16s and weapons to the Kurds in the fight against the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). Writes Wedding based on sources close to the government and the ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence. Would be voted on. Ministers tomorrow about the plan
Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, the decision than in New York to present at a meeting of the UN Security Council, where the advance of IS on the agenda as a topic of conversation. Prior to organizing the US meeting for the countries in the so-called coalition of the willing IS want to fight militarily.
Netherlands is not yet in this union of nations, to the displeasure of the House. According to him Timmermans was the reason that the hall of the recent NATO summit in Wales, where the coalition first came together, was too small. But Trouw writes on the authority of a source around the cabinet that in reality the Dutch contribution was not taken seriously until now helmets and vests by shrapnel USA
The delivery of jets by the Netherlands would be for the United States are a prerequisite to be allowed to do with the prohibition against IS. The United States would want to take this time only countries that actually contribute militarily. Constraints such as the Netherlands earlier example instituted during the intervention in Libya in 2011, when the F-16s were bombing ground targets no, America would no longer accept.
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