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Greece to send three planes to Libya for evacuation

Arab World Materials 24 February 2011 11:45 (UTC +04:00)
Greece was preparing Thursday to send three airplanes to Libya to aid in evacuating Greek and other European Union nationals.
Greece to send three planes to Libya for evacuation

Greece was preparing Thursday to send three airplanes to Libya to aid in evacuating Greek and other European Union nationals, DPA reported.

A Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman announced that three Greek Air Force planes were to be despatched to the country.

In addition, two Greek ferries which had reached Libya's port city of Benghazi on Wednesday were due to leave again by Thursday evening, bringing several hundred people back to Greece.

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