Lieut Gen Seán Clancy, set for top EU military post, said 'ignoring Russian threats not an option' for EU
The Defence Forces chief-of-staff, Lieut Gen Sean Clancy, with Taoiseach Simon Harris and Tánaiste Micheál Martin. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin
“One example of such co-operation is the topic of military mobility,” Lieut Gen Seán Clancy said, in remarks that will be watched more closely than ever because he will take up the new EU role 12 months from now. “A credible European deterrence to further Russian aggression demands the efficient movement of troops across a vast area of European land mass.”
Lieut Gen Clancy was speaking at a seminar on Nato, the UN and EU in Dublin which was attended by several EU ambassadors. It was hosted in the Belgian embassy in Dublin, which is the Nato contact point in the Republic. Lieut Gen Clancy added that while the United Nations was the pre-eminent peacekeeping body in the world, Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and the fighting in Gaza “have demonstrated the potential to paralyse the security council”. It was, for example, a matter of concern that the UN security council had not established a peacekeeping operation in over a decade.
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