Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am absolutely committed and have articulated the need for a multilateral and rules-based order. The point I made yesterday was that for small open economies or states like Ireland, our ultimate security is not in optimal defence capability, it is in a rules-based order. That is our ultimate security. We support Ukraine because its territorial integrity and sovereignty were violated and the UN Charter was breached. There is no equivocation in that regard. I took the opportunity yesterday to reassert that. That General Assembly notion is just a notion. It is always Security Council resolutions that underpin peacekeeping missions.

We have had significant challenges during our time on the Security Council, even in respect of keeping humanitarian corridors to north-west Syria and Tigre open. Humanitarian corridors are used to get vital aid to people in war zones. We got first-hand experience of the challenges and modern-day reality that exist when we were on the Security Council.

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