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March 16, 2009
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates, U.S. Africa Command's deputy to the commander for civil-military activities (second from right), discusses U.S. AFRICOM activities with Ambassador Vincent Mertens de Willmars, director of the Ministry of Defense diplomatic department (left), Rear Admiral Marc Ectors, Belgian Ministry of Defense operations director (second from left), and members of the Ministry of Defense staff March 12, 2009, in Brussels. Colonel Dan Fagundes (right), U.S. Defense Attache to Belgium, and Wayne Bush, U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission to the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, also attended the meeting. Yates led a small U.S. Africa Command delegation from its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, to meet with Belgian defense and foreign affairs officials and African defense attachhÃs in Brussels to share information about command activities and discuss possibilities for future cooperation. (U.S. Africa Command photo by Kenneth Fidler)