Military Neutrality
Dail Éireann — 2025-09-18
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Simon Harris (FG), Wicklow

It is possible in that scenario that the UN Security Council, because Russia is on it, would agree. The Deputy does not know that and I do not know that. However, it is also possible, in answer to Deputy Clendennen's question, that we could see a scenario more broadly - and I am not talking about Ukraine - where EU countries may wish to deploy peacekeepers, where the OSCE may wish to deploy peacekeepers or where there may be regional requests for peacekeeping missions that do not have the support of Russia, China or of the US for economic reasons or whatever else. I do not see what the difficulty with that is because-----

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