Ministers are meeting early this morning to put the final touches to their official reply to January’s highly critical report on the Netherlands’ involvement in the invasion of Iraq, reports news agency ANP.

A spokesman for the prime minister’s office said this is the first time all cabinet ministers will have had their say on the report, which accused the government of the day of not keeping parliament fully informed.
When the Davids Commission report was published on January 12 there was almost a cabinet crisis because prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende appeared to dismiss most of its findings.
He was prime minister at the time of the invasion in 2003. Labour, currently a member of the coalition government, was in opposition and strongly against the war.
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