Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will try to be brief. I have two questions for the Minister of State, which I referred to in my contribution. Why is it okay to trade with Saudi Arabia, which cuts off people's heads every month, and Israel, which murders children in Palestine, but it is not okay to trade with Russia? If we were interested in having peace in eastern Europe, would it not be a good idea for the EU to encourage the US to sit down with Russia and have a chat about how what was happening in Ukraine was terrible for the country's people? Could these three powers get together and agree not to intervene in Ukraine and to leave the country to its people? Interference by Russia, the US and the EU in Ukraine is causing terrible misery for its people.

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