Dutch Are Given U.S. Assurances on Jets
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has assured the Netherlands that firms in the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway and Denmark will be allowed to compete for work in a $1.2 billion program to modernize hundreds of F-16 fighters, Dutch officials said Wednesday.
Netherlands Defense Ministry spokesman Pieter Maessen said the assurance was given to visiting Dutch Undersecretary of Defense Berend-Jan Baron van Voorst tot Voorst in a Pentagon meeting Tuesday with Deputy Defense Secretary Donald J. Atwood.
The F-16s were sold to the four countries, and some of them co-produced there, with the understanding that European industry would take part in later upgrades, Maessen said.
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