New Zealand Defence Force Commitments to Multilateral Peace Support Operations in the Middle East and Africa

This pack of documents comprises:

• the March 2022 Cabinet document New Zealand Defence Force Commitments to Multilateral Peace Support Operations in the Middle East and Africa [ERS-22-SUB-0009] and
• the associated minute New Zealand Defence Force Commitments to Multilateral Peace Support Operations in the Middle East and Africa [ERS-22-MIN-0009]

It has been necessary to withhold certain information in accordance with the following provisions of the Official Information Act 1982. Where information is withheld, the relevant sections of the Act are indicated in the body of the document. Where information has been withheld in accordance with section 9(2) of the Act, no public interest has been identified that would outweigh the reasons for withholding it.

Information is withheld where making it available would be likely to prejudice:

• the security or defence of New Zealand or the international relations of the Government of New Zealand [section 6(a)]
• the entrusting of information to the Government of New Zealand on the basis of confidence by the Government of any other country [section 6(b)(i)].

Information is also withheld in order to:

• protect information where the making available of the information would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied the information [section 9(2)(b)(ii)]
• maintain the constitutional conventions for the timing being which protect the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers of the Crown and officials [section 9(2)(f)(iv)]
• maintain the free and frank expression of information by or between Ministers and officials
• maintain legal professional privilege [section 9(2)(h)].