New Zealand would send a six-member defense team to the Middle East as part of an international coalition to uphold maritime security in the Red Sea, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Tuesday. “Houthi attacks against commercial and naval shipping are illegal, unacceptable, and profoundly destabilizing,” Mr. Luxon said. “This deployment … is a continuation of New Zealand’s long history of defending freedom of navigation both in the Middle East and closer to home,” he added.
