{"id":28088,"date":"2021-02-09T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/ardern-orders-inquiry-into-air-new-zealands-work-for-saudi-arabia-navy"},"modified":"2021-02-09T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:34:40","slug":"ardern-orders-inquiry-into-air-new-zealands-work-for-saudi-arabia-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28088","title":{"rendered":"Ardern orders inquiry into Air New Zealand&#8217;s work for Saudi Arabia navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers for the national carrier, which is majority-owned by the government, worked on engines and a power turbine for the Royal Saudi Navy<\/p>\n<p>Prime minister Jacinda Ardern has asked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to investigate after it was revealed an Air New Zealand company worked on the engine of a Saudi Arabian navy ship.<\/p>\n<p>The national carrier for New Zealand, which is majority-owned by the government, is facing mounting questions after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/one-news\/new-zealand\/exclusive-air-nz-has-been-secretly-helping-saudi-arabian-military-despite-its-role-in-yemen-humanitarian-crisis\">TVNZ investigation<\/a> revealed some of its specialist engineers worked on two engines and one power turbine for the royal navy of Saudi Arabia though a third-party company in 2019.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/ardern-orders-inquiry-into-air-new-zealands-work-for-saudi-arabia-navy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers for the national carrier, which is majority-owned by the government, worked on engines and a power turbine for the Royal Saudi NavyPrime minister Jacinda Ardern has asked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to investigate after it w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,268,212,56,398,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-new-zealand","category-saudi-arabia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28091,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28088\/revisions\/28091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}