France has formally scrapped plans to privatize its military satellite telecommunications system through a sale and leaseback formula after concluding its defense authorities prefer to keep full ownership and control of the system, Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said March 6. Longuet's statements to the Toulouse Chamber of Commerce and Industry would appear to mark the end of a three-year debate inside the French government over whether to follow the outsourcing route pioneered by the British Defence Ministry.
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