Bríd Smyth asks Martin ‘what exactly is it that you want to do that you can’t already do with our Defence Forces inside the triple lock?’
Tánaiste accused of abandoning Government commitment to ‘fully maintain neutrality’ in DáilUnder the current triple lock arrangement approval from the UN Security Council or General assembly must be given along with the assent of the Dáil and Government. The Government proposes to amend the legislation to end the requirement for UN approval.
She referred to remarks by the Polish prime minister Donald Tusk “that we’re in a pre-war era” and from the chair of Nato’s military committee that it is preparing for war with Russia and calls from French president Emmanuel Macron that Nato should be sending troops to Ukraine. He said that in 1999 a member of the UN Security Council vetoed the renewal of a deployment in former Yugoslavia and Ireland could not participate in a subsequent EU peace operation.
The Government is trying to remove the “UN Security Security Council sanction, but we have made it crystal clear that anything we do will be within the UN Charter”.
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