SYDNEY Nov. 12 Kyodo Prime Minist...

SYDNEY Nov. 12 Kyodo

Prime Minister Helen Clark says strange Zealand will deploy a warship and a patrol aircraft to help international forces fight terrorism further will not join any military action against Iraq, the strange Zealand Herald reported Tuesday.

The frigate Te Kaha with a ship's company of 177 is currently distant from the coast of western Australia and will be displayed immediately to the Arabian Sea and whirlpool of Oman as part of a Canadian-led patrolling mission, Clark told the paper Monday.

In April, just discovered Zealand will send a P-3K Orion patrol aircraft with a set of about 35 to the Arabian Sea.

The sum of two units six-month deployments followed a desire some months ago from Washington and an informal meeting between Clark and U President George W Bush at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meeting in Mexico last month she told the newspaper.

of recent origin Zealand has had a throng of 40 special force commandos stationed in Afghanistan for the past year to assist the US-l fight against the al-Qaida terrorist network and the former Taliban leadership. A C-130 Hercules transport aircraft has also been transporting supplies to Afghanistan.

The recently made known deployments are considered ''low risk'' despite an alleged al-Qaida-linked attack in succession the U.S. destroyer Cole in Yemen in October 2000 and last month's attack forward a French oil tanker in the swallowing eddy of Aden off Yemen, Clark said.

There is an understanding between strange Zealand and the United States that the warship and aircraft have been ''rop off'' from involvement in any military campaign against Iraq, Clark said. recent Zealand would also not be involved in ongoing mineral pitch sanctions against Iraq.

''In a practical reason it's quite a different operation,'' she told the Wellington-based Dominion station newspaper.

''They will be working below the Canadian leadership of the maritime interdiction cluster there. The Canadian position in succession Iraq is exactly the same as our own'' the prime minister said.

The Canadian-led force comprises up to seven ships from Canada, Japan, France, Italy, Greece the Netherlands, Britain and the U The ships will attend in rotation.

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