Cabinet to discuss options against ISIS
Updated at 7:30 am today
Cabinet Ministers will tomorrow discuss the possibility of New Zealand joining the fight in Iraq and Syria against the extremist group Islamic State, or ISIS.
Tony Abbott (left) and John Key spoke in Perth before WW1 commemorations in Albany, Western Australia, on Saturday. Photo: RNZ / Craig McCulloc
The Prime Minister has revealed he will make a speech about security on Wednesday, outlining steps the Government will take to address the threat of foreign fighters.
Mr Key said that would include ways the Government might address any deficiencies in the security laws.
"It's also likely we'll be in a position at least to give a sense of what sorts of options are available to New Zealand when it comes to the situation with ISIS."
Mr Key said he would not reveal any specific threats during his speech, but hoped to give New Zealanders a better sense of the situation.
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Mr Key revealed the date for the speech from Albany, Western Australia, where he was taking part in a memorial service marking 100 years since New Zealand and Australian troops left there for the First World War.
Despite having discussed the situation in Iraq and Syria with Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott this weekend, Mr Key said New Zealand was still making its mind up on whether to join the US-led coalition.
"What we are doing is working our way through all of the information that we have to try and form the best assessment of what contribution practically New Zealand could make.
"There's a wide range of categories there right through from humanitarian aid to potentially some sort of military intervention. In the fullness of time, Cabinet will have the opportunity to consider those issues and make a call."
Mr Key said the Cabinet would discuss those options tomorrow, but it was unlikely to make any firm decisions.
Reports of mass killing in Iraq
In Iraq, ISIS militants have killed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe, in a campaign of slaughter that began last week.
ISIS was understood to be acting in retaliation for the tribe's resistance against the group's territorial advances in the country, Reuters reported.
One of the tribe's leaders, Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud, said ISIS killed 50 members of Albu Nimr on Friday.
In a separate incident, 35 bodies of the tribespeople have been found in a mass grave.
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