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By NICK LEE-FRAMPTON
WELLINGTON — Withdrawal from its major deployments, delayed upgrade projects and the effective absence for more than six months of the Navy’s flagship are included in a brief prepared for New Zealand’s new Defence Minister, Jonathan Coleman.
The Ministry of Defence document says that the first priority of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is operations, both at home and abroad. These include assisting other New Zealand government agencies, for example, by doing maritime patrol in support of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Mammals.
Such patrols are ongoing, whereas over the next three years there will be a steady drawdown from current operations in Afghanistan, Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands.
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