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EU and U.S. Close to Deal over Reciprocal Wet-lease Terms
But planned signing delayed due to ‘linguistic issue’

Representatives of the European Commission (EC) and the U.S. government were ready to sign an agreement in principle to settle their long-lasting dispute over wet-lease time limitations at the recent EU-U.S. Joint committee meeting in The Hague. But the topic fell from the agenda at the last minute due to a “linguistic issue raised by a member state,” AIN learned.