Chris Carter: Forty New Zealand Defence Force staff sent to Afghanistan to help with evacuations

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 16, 2021 · 4m

There's confidence our Government's working hard to get New Zealanders, and people who helped our Army, out of Afghanistan.

Forty Defence Force staff are being sent to help with evacuations - possibly due to leave tomorrow.

Former Labour MP Chris Carter, who worked for the UN in Afghanistan, told Kate Hawkesby Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's promised to send a Hercules to Kabul Airport as quickly as possible.

He says the Government's identified who can come, and may include other at-risk people, like young female journalists.

“If we can fill these up with people who face the real prospect of…