The Portuguese government has agreed to send a Hercules C-130 plane loaded
with humanitarian aid to Lebanon, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on
Friday.
Portugal decided to send the plan in response to a World Food Program
(WFP) call earlier this week, made in a letter from the United Nations.
The WFP called on the UN nations to lend Hercules C-130s to the WFP
so that it could transport food from its main warehouse in the Italian town of
Brindisi to Lebanon.
The plane that Portugal agreed to send belongs to the Portuguese Air
Force and is currently in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, where it is supporting
Portugal's military mission. It will go directly from Kabul to Brindisi.
