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MD Delivers Arms with Izuzu Car to FALINTIL-FDTL

Headquarters, 29 July 2024
The Government through the Ministry of Defense, handed over vehicles and weapons to the FALINTIL Command-Timor-Leste Defense Force.
"Today we have an opportunity to deliver vehicle transport, personal tactical transport as well as weapons that were part of last year's acquisition, especially all these acquisitions within the framework of the Military Programming Law," said Minister of Defense Contra Admiral Donaciano Costa Gomes then handed over the equipment to the FALINTIL-FDTL, at the Headquarters, Fatuhada.
He said the law of military programming is a law that was issued last year and began to implement and from the implementation of this resulted in the acquisition of some vehicles that today delivered 8 Izuzu cars and weapons with the quantity requested or required also make delivery today.
He said the types of weapons that are more complex and complete and all these weapons to comply with the organic material that exists and also all these weapons to correspond to specific missions or special missions 'that the Armed Forces perform if these weapons are in condition to be able to correspond.
The governor said the military programming law, a law that allows how the armed forces can develop, develop in its means, weapons, equipment and all the resources that are necessary to transform from force one that is operational, proportional according to the military strategic concept that is defined.
He said the cars came from Thailand but all these acquisitions were made in accordance with operational requirements.
"According to the implementation of the first phase of the programming law we spent a total of 9 million, not only to buy personal tactical transportation and weapons but also to buy maritime means such as military naval means in the Naval Component they use, some means take part of this acquisition 'which is framed in the law of military programming.
In the same place, Chief of Staff F-FDTL Brigadier General José da Costa Soares "Trix" said, these equipments FALINTIL-FDTL will see how to use these means to fulfill the mission that politicians give to the Armed Forces.
"These equipments are used for the entire FALINTIL-FDTL, this is part of the military programming law that the force has a principle that says slowly but steadily, not today talk to buy immediately but also depends budget every year, in our purchase, this is the F-FDTL's words said slowly but steadily, "he concluded.
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