Chris Carter: Forty New Zealand Defence Force staff sent to Afghanistan to help with evacuations
Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Newstalk ZB
August 16, 20214m 33s
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There's confidence our Government's working hard to get New Zealanders, and people who helped our Army, out of Afghanistan.
Forty Defence Force staff are being sent to help with evacuations - possibly due to leave tomorrow.
Former Labour MP Chris Carter, who worked for the UN in Afghanistan, told Kate Hawkesby Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's promised to send a Hercules to Kabul Airport as quickly as possible.
He says the Government's identified who can come, and may include other at-risk people, like young female journalists.
“If we can fill these up with people who face the real prospect of death in Afghanistan, and particularly people who have helped the New Zealand troops there, then I think we should get them out.”
But things are becoming increasingly complicated - with all flights suspended in and out of Kabul at the moment.
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Forty Defence Force staff are being sent to help with evacuations - possibly due to leave tomorrow.
Former Labour MP Chris Carter, who worked for the UN in Afghanistan, told Kate Hawkesby Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's promised to send a Hercules to Kabul Airport as quickly as possible.
He says the Government's identified who can come, and may include other at-risk people, like young female journalists.
“If we can fill these up with people who face the real prospect of death in Afghanistan, and particularly people who have helped the New Zealand troops there, then I think we should get them out.”
But things are becoming increasingly complicated - with all flights suspended in and out of Kabul at the moment.
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