Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

Will the Minister indicate how effective is the peacekeeping arrangement? Can any means be found to co-operate with peacekeepers and are there sufficient deployments to clearly convince opposing factors that the violence and atrocities which have taken place must come to a halt?

How effective is the arms embargo and how well policed is it? To what extent has it been breached and the breaches identified? There is a degree of violence in the region and arms embargoes should apply to everybody if they are to be effective in cutting off supplies.

To what extent has the Minister, either directly or through the EU or UN, attempted to influence a settlement or recognition that violence must come to an end in the region?

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