Proposal to Extend the Current Iraq Deployment Mandate - Cabinet Documents

21/12/2018 Deployments and Diplomacy, Response to an Official Information Act request, Cabinet material

This publication provides documents on Cabinet's September 2018 decision to extend the New Zealand Defence Force deployment to Iraq and the region from 30 November 2018 to 30 June 2019 at a reduced number of up to 121 personnel. It invites the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defence to report back to Cabinet before the end of April 2019 on possible options for New Zealand contributions to Iraq from July 2019.

Iraq Deployment Mandate
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Proposal to Extend the Current Iraq Deployment Mandate - Cabinet Documents
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The publication comprises:

  • the September 2019 Cabinet minute of decision: Proposal to Extend the Current Iraq Deployment Mandate [CAB-18-MIN-0455]
  • the associated Cabinet paper: Proposal to Extend the Current Iraq Deployment Mandate [CAB-18-SUB-0455].

Certain information has been withheld from the documents, in accordance with the following provisions of the Official Information Act 1982. Information is withheld where the making available of the information 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)].

Certain information has been withheld in order to maintain the constitutional conventions for the time being which protect the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers of the Crown and officials [section 9(2)(f)(iv)]. It is not considered that the public interest in this information outweighs the need to protect it.

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