Ms Niamh Ní Bhriain:

I did up a document on vetoes which I am happy to share with members in my submission. It looks at every Russian veto that has taken place since the beginning of the 1990s. There were 39 vetoes. None of them vetoed a peacekeeping mission. There is one veto that is on a United Nations observation mission in Georgia. That was not a peacekeeping mission; it was an observation mission. It was vetoed after 16 years. There are three others, including one in relation to Bosnia and Herzegovina and one in relation to Cyprus, but they are in relation to financing. They never ended the missions. The missions continued and they resolved the financing afterwards. I have laid that out in the document. There has never been a mission vetoed by Russia.