Dáil debates

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Other Questions

Foreign Conflicts

5:05 pm

Photo of Mick WallaceMick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In October, speaking about the success of the Convention on Cluster Munitions and Ireland's central role in its adoption, the Minister said, "A hundred countries are now parties to that convention and such is its success that even for those states that have refused to become parties to it, the use of cluster munitions has been so stigmatised that they will avoid or deny using them." In May 2015, the Minister called on all states, including those that have not signed the convention as well as non-state actors, to refrain from using these weapons. When the Minister was in Saudi Arabia last November, did he repeat this call when he was face to face with Saudi Ministers or when he was interviewed by the media there?

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