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Spain will not send staff to EUFOR RCA Bangui

(BRUSSELS2) Spain will not send troops for the European Union military operation EUFOR currently being formed. This was confirmed by the Chief of the Defense Staff, Admiral Fernando Garcia Sanchez, during a press conference held in Madrid. Spain is already participating bilaterally in Operation Sangaris, led by the French army, in the Central African Republic, with a C-130 Hercules aircraft and an "air" detachment of around 60 soldiers based in Libreville (Gabon). Information which thus confirms our first count made about ten days ago.

In an interview with our Europa Press colleagues, Lt. Col. Fernando Sánchez-Arjona, Operations Command Reconnaissance Mission Team Leader for Air Detachment Deployment, confirmed that the detachment will be in place “ in the second half of March at the Libreville base from where the C-130 will rotate to Bangui (Central African Republic). " A dozen flights per month could be carried out - he specified - "taking into account the distances between Libreville and the operation of the airport »

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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