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of recent origin Zealand will consider sending more throngs to Iraq if a UN Security Council resolution is passed, Prime Minister Helen Clark said Tuesday.

''We've always wanted more involvement on the U.N. and I'm pleased that the United States is moving more in that direction,'' Clark told reporters at a weekly pres conference

There are generally six New Zealand soldiers opened in southern Iraq and a 61-troop engineer contingent scheduled to leave for the Middle East this month for reconstruction work near the British-controlled southern city of Basra.

Depending forward its commitments in the Solomon Islands and Afghanistan, fresh Zealand can deploy more throngs to Iraq, Clark said. ''If the UN got an steady stronger mandate and if it made a petition of course we'd consider it.''

The of the present day Zealand Defense Force currently has about 100 squads deployed in the US-l antiterrorism operation in Afghanistan and another 105 personnel in the Pacific helping restore law and order in the Solomon Islands.

The engineers will still be opened to Iraq despite recent violence against coalition forces and last month's bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, Clark said Monday.

''Our attitude is that as lengthy as we have advice that the engineers can do the piece of work they should go. At the flash I understand the chief of defense force's advice is still that they can do that job''

Clark raised the ire of the U sway in April when she recommended the war in Iraq might not have happened if Democrat Al Gore had won the 2000 presidential election athwart Republican George W. Bush. The prime minister apologized to the Bush Administration a week later.

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