Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion

4:10 pm

Photo of Eric ByrneEric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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I thank Mr. Browder for coming here. I read up on the case and I am very interested. In a sense, it is historical or coincidental that Mr. Browder happens to be here just after the debate we have had on human rights with Amnesty International and the role of Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union. I congratulate Mr. Browder for acting far beyond the call of duty to a former employee who, tragically, was killed.

Mr. Browder listed the countries which he visited and the decisions of those parliamentarians. This is the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade. Invariably, we deal with the BRIC, Brazil, Russia, India and China, axis as to where-----