The Portuguese government has agreed to send a Hercules C-130 plane loaded with humanitarian aid to Lebanon, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

Portugal decided to send the plan in response to a World Food Program (WFP) call earlier this week, made in a letter from the United Nations.

The WFP called on the UN nations to lend Hercules C-130s to the WFP so that it could transport food from its main warehouse in the Italian town of Brindisi to Lebanon.

The plane that Portugal agreed to send belongs to the Portuguese Air Force and is currently in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, where it is supporting Portugal's military mission. It will go directly from Kabul to Brindisi.

Source: Xinhua