Equipment help

The equipment aid or equipment aid program , abbreviated to AH or AH-P , is a program of the German Federal Government to provide other states in the military and police sector with equipment. Weapons , ammunition and machines that can produce weapons and ammunition are excluded from the equipment aid. Structural measures are also occasionally supported financially. The program is sponsored by the Ministry of Defense , the Foreign Office and the Ministry of the Interior and has been running since 1961. The aid is divided into 3 areas: Equipment aid for foreign armed forces, for which there is a 4-year cycle and currently mainly goes to African countries, General Police Equipment Aid and equipment assistance for drug control authorities .

Individual evidence

↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the small question of the MPs Angelika Beer, Amke Dietert-Scheuer and the parliamentary group BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN. (ASC) In: Drucksache 13/11266. August 4, 1998, accessed November 4, 2012 .
↑ Dieter Kastrup: Division of the Foreign Office - Small question from the MP Rudolf Binding. (PDF; 983 kB) In: Drucksache 12/8472. P. 1 , accessed November 4, 2012 .

[Beer-1] Answer of the Federal Government to the small question of the MPs Angelika Beer, Amke Dietert-Scheuer and the parliamentary group BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN. (ASC) In: Drucksache 13/11266. August 4, 1998, accessed November 4, 2012 .

[2] Dieter Kastrup: Division of the Foreign Office - Small question from the MP Rudolf Binding. (PDF; 983 kB) In: Drucksache 12/8472. P. 1 , accessed November 4, 2012 .