DTN News - LIBYA UPRISING: Sweden To Base Military Aircraft In Malta....NSI News Source Info # 1634
(NSI News Source Info) MALTA - February 28, 2011:
Sweden is to base a military aircraft - a Hercules C-130 - in Malta to assist in the evacuation of its nationals from Libya, informed sources said.
The government had given its go-ahead in line with humanitarian assistance given to all countries.
Just last week, Sweden’s Interior Minister Tobias Bilstrom and his Maltese counterpart Carm Mifsud Bonnici clashed at an EU ministers' meeting which discussed the possible influx of migrants as a result of the Libyan crisis.
Mr Bilstrom said that Italy’s request for burden sharing as “an exaggeration”,
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