WELLINGTON, Sept 23 (AFP) - New Zealand's military personnel in Iraq will be home Saturday, Defence Minister Mark Burton said in a statement Thursday.
The 61 army engineers, who have been based in Basra in southern Iraq, were due to leave by the end of the month after a year long deployment.
They are to be flown out on a military Boeing 757 and be greeted by Prime Minister Helen Clark at Ohakea base, north of here.
Clark earlier said it was unlikely any further deployments would be made.
"I can't see that at this time. I think Iraq is just too difficult and too dangerous," she told Radio New Zealand Wednesday.