Dáil debates
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
European Council Meetings.
3:00 pm
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
I want to make that clear. Specifically in respect of the Council declarations on Iran, was there discussion regarding a declaration on Israel? Did the Taoiseach raise with his counterparts at the Council meeting the recent refusal of the Israeli Government to allow the Minister for Foreign Affairs to visit Gaza? Was the matter raised wherein the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Micheál Martin, was directly refused access to the Palestinian people of Gaza by the Israeli Government? Was a proposition put forward on, or consideration given to, removing the special arrangements with the European Union in respect of preferential trade agreements between the European Union states and Israel in the context both of their treatment of our Minister for Foreign Affairs and, much more importantly, of the Palestinian people themselves?
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