Spain contributes to rescue efforts of plane crash in Mali with a T-21 military aircraft

2014.7.25

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The Spanish Minister for Defence, Pedro Morenés, spoke by phone on the afternoon of Thursday, 24 July, with his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, to whom he offered the service of the T-21 plane in coordination with the French forces. Pedro Morenés also offered aid from the Spanish team of Special Operations instructors deployed in Koulikoro within the framework of Operation EUTM-Mali, to help protect the crash site during the task of recovering remains.

The Chief of Defence Staff is coordinating the tasks related to this accident that Spain, in support of France, is carrying out or plans to carry out, and is in constant contact with his French counterpart.