Source: Radio New Zealand
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Foreign Minister Winston Peters says when conditions allow, NZDF planes will help New Zealanders get to locations where they can get on commercial flights home.
He says they will not be long flights.
The minister says at the speed at which potentially thousands of people need to be moved, it’s better they are taken to a safer place as fast as possible.
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