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Monday, March 07, 2011

Queen's Oman visit to foster frigate order for Dutch shipyard

Zeven Provinciën classThe main reason behind queen Beatrix’ visit to Oman is a hoped-for €110m order from the Oman authorities for four frigates to fight piracy, the Volkskrant reports on Monday.

Last week, the official state visit and trade mission was postponed because of political unrest in the Gulf state.

However, it emerged later the queen and crown prince Willem-Alexander will still attend a private dinner hosted by sultan Qaboos bin Said a-Said on Tuesday.

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