Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Business of Joint Committee
2:35 pm
Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)
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I fully support Deputy Smith's argument. I do not know if anybody else received it but I received a communication from a group that quoted Archbishop Nassar of Damascus. He is a Maronite archbishop and is very much in the firing line. I met him last year at a conference. He is a very funny man but was very restrained in what he could say by what is happening in Syria. This particular article appeared to be a huge plea for help. Its thrust appeared to be that unless something is done, all Christians in Syria will either be killed or forced to leave the country.