Dutch Socialist MP Harry van Bommel has claimed that US spy planes are using an airbase on the Netherlands Antilles island of Curaçao.
Mr Van Bommel has asked Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen whether he is aware that a Boeing RC-135 aircraft has been making regular reconnaissance flights from the Caribbean island's Hato airport over the past few weeks. The Socialist Party, the Netherlands biggest opposition party, wants the US to stop using the airfield.
The flights were the cause of angry reactions by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who accused the Netherlands of helping the United States prepare an attack on his country.
Map: Curaçao is one of three Dutch Caribbean islands close to Venezuela
Curaçao is one of three Dutch Caribbean islands close to Venezuela
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