New Zealand is making plans to evacuate about 30 nationals known to be in Lebanon, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said Monday.

"Evacuation plans are being made as we speak," Peters, who is in the United States for an official visit, told National Radio.

He said the New Zealand government will work with Britain and France on getting New Zealanders out.

While the military crisis was causing problems, to move people "as much as can be done is being done," he said.

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Monday that the British authorities looked after New Zealand's interests in countries where it had no diplomatic post.

"We will need to be guided by them in their efforts to get out the foreign nationals they're responsible for," she told the NewstalkZB radio network.

New Zealand officials are now contacting with many of the New Zealanders in Lebanon for evacuation.

Source: Xinhua