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Dutch raise concern over UN medevac helicopters

1st August 2018 - 16:46 GMT | by Tim Martin in London

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The Dutch MoD is currently in talks with the UN to resolve rotary operational issues in Kidal, Mali including reliability issues with the peacekeeping organisation's medevac helicopters. 

According to a letter signed in November 2017 by Atul Khare, under-secretary-general for field support at the UN and Jean-Pierre Lacroix, under-secretary-general for peacekeeping missions, Kidal medevac operations are conducted by the Soviet era Mil Mi-8 medium twin aircraft, which could suggest the older airframes are suffering from availability issues, as is the implication from the Dutch MoD.

Up to 28 July, a group of 20 Dutch troops had been deployed to the

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