Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his extensive and comprehensive reply. I compliment him and the Tánaiste on the extent to which they have committed themselves to peaceful intervention in the region. I note what the Minister of State said in his response about no-fly zones. Can he comment on the extent to which the international community has proposed the notion of safe havens - notwithstanding the experience in the western Balkans in an earlier generation - with a view to establishing such locations in this region or on its borders, and to which members of the civilian community might have recourse in the event of their human rights being violated or their lives being at risk?

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