Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The concerns that Ireland and other EU member states have expressed about the situation in Bahrain have clout for the reasons that have been mentioned. As I have said, this matter was discussed at the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in April. I expect it will be discussed again at the next meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council. If there is no response to the calls that have been made by Ireland, other member states and the EU as a whole, and if the repression continues in the way I have described, obviously the Foreign Affairs Council will have to consider other measures.

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