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This publication provides documents surrounding Cabinet’s decision to extend the mandate for the deployment of the New Zealand Defence Force personnel to the United Nations Command and the United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission in the Republic of Korea until 30 September 2024.
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This publication provides the Cabinet proposal and report back on Hon Andrew Little’s travel to Europe and the Middle East to attend the Ukraine Defence Contact Group; lead the New Zealand delegation at Anzac Day 2023 commemorations; and meet with counterparts and visit New Zealand Defence deployments in the Middle East.
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This publication provides the Cabinet proposal and report back on Hon Andrew Little’s travel to Fiji to sign a Status of Forces Agreement between Aotearoa New Zealand and the Republic of Fiji .
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This publication provides documents on Cabinet’s December 2021 decision extend the mandate for New Zealand’s support to maritime security in the Middle East to 30 June 2024.
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The Defence Policy and Strategy Statement 2023 will guide Defence’s planning, operations, engagements and investment to ensure that Defence is fit-for-purpose in an increasingly challenging and complex world.
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The Future Force Design Principles (FFDP) identifies the requirements of the future Defence Force to respond to the strategic environment and approach set out in the Defence Policy and Strategy Statement 2023.
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This publication provides documents pertaining to an oral update provided to Cabinet on 13 December 2022 regarding the Defence Policy and Strategy Statement, and two subsequent papers from March and June 2023 where the DPSS was approved as the government’s official statement of New Zealand’s Defence Policy.
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This publication provides documents pertaining to Cabinet’s 26 June 2023 decision to agree to the second product of the Defence Policy Review, the Future Force Design Principles.
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A summary of feedback from the New Zealand public from a survey developed by Kantar Public to provide input for the Defence Policy Review. This document provides an overview from the 8,578 responses provided via an anonymous online survey.
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