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New Zealand Navy Joins NATO’s Ocean Shield

Posted on January 23, 2014 by 

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The Royal New Zealand Navy frigate HMNZS TE MANA is ready to join NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield today, which will be the second time that a partner nation has contributed to NATO’s counter-piracy efforts after Ukraine.

NATO welcomed the offer to contribute to the operation from the New Zealand Government in an exchange of formal correspondence on Tuesday, 21 January 2014.

New Zealand’s Defence Minister, Dr. Jonathan Coleman stressed that “participating in NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield is a good opportunity for the New Zealand Defence Force to test its interoperability with contributing NATO nations. This deployment is an example of New Zealand’s commitment to playing our part in supporting NATO in areas of common interest.”

HMNZS TE MANA arrived off the coast of Somalia mid December, 2013 to conduct counter-piracy operations as part of Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) Combined Task Force 151 (CTF 151).

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New Zealand Navy Joins NATO’s Ocean Shield

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HMNZS Te Mana will extend its current anti-piracy role in the Indian Ocean starting on Thursday. The ship will join a mission called Operation Ocean Shield which is run by Nato.

Posted on January 22, 2014 by 

The New Zealand Government has announced that Navy frigate Te Mana will extend its current anti-piracy role in the Indian Ocean starting on Thursday.

The ship will join a mission called Operation Ocean Shield which is run by Nato.

Te Mana has been in the area for the past six weeks working for a different anti-piracy mission, a naval partnership of 30 nations led by the United States.

Both missions aim to combat piracy off the Somali coast and in the Gulf of Aden.

Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman says as a trading nation New Zealand is committed to international efforts to fight piracy.

HMNZS Te Mana will extend its current anti-piracy role in the Indian Ocean starting on Thursday. The ship will join a mission called Operation Ocean Shield which is run by Nato.

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