Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Last week Dáil Éireann, to its shame, gave a round of applause to a parliamentary delegation from Azerbaijan, which included representatives of its ruling party. This was despite the fact that the Azerbaijani state organised a blockade for ten months of Nagorno-Karabakh, which resulted in starvation for some, seized the territory, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds, including children, and forced 100,000 Armenian people to flee the territory, de factoethnic cleansing. I request that the business committee meet this week and, when it meets, considers how this stain on the name of this Parliament can best be dealt with and removed.

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