16 Aug 2021

MFAT working to get 30 NZ citizens out of Afghanistan - Jacinda Ardern

From Morning Report, 7:19 am on 16 August 2021

Cabinet will decide today whether New Zealand can evacuate fewer than 40 Afghanistan nationals who supported our military efforts there.

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Corin Dann the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade have also been proactively trying to get about 30 New Zealand citizens and their family members out of Afghanistan, and that situation has now become much more urgent.