Seanad debates

Wednesday, 25 June 2003

Military Neutrality: Motion.

 

As the Minister of State has pointed out, we have been involved in shaping EU policy for over 20 years, as we continue to do today. The emphasis on Petersberg tasks, humanitarian tasks, peacekeeping, a limited element of peace enforcement and use of all the instruments of policy – economic and so on – is very much in line with our philosophy, of which we should be proud. The notion that we are, somehow, isolated and that others want to move in a different direction completely misreads the picture. On a political point, any party with which Fine Gael would wish to be in government does not seem to take this line. Nevertheless, I welcome this debate.

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