Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Concern

2:50 pm

Ms Brid Kennedy:

That was the easy question.

The Senator also asked about the standards of the West. It is in the context of this question that we are strongly calling for political action to end the war. It is a conflict that started off with the minutiae of schoolchildren's graffiti on a wall before escalating to potentially a global conflict. Unless we do something urgently to try to control and end the war, we are not attending to our own or anybody else's standards.

It will also lead to more human suffering in Syria, its neighbouring countries and potentially in many other countries. Our strong request is to try to get support at every level - globally, at European level and at national level - to try to end the political crisis.