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TÁNAISTE AND MINISTER for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore says that there is clear evidence of war crimes in Syria and Ireland will therefore be backing a request to refer Syria to to the International Criminal Court.
The French initiated request is being made to the UN Security Council and is being supported by all 28 EU countries as well as a number of other UN member states.
The Security Council Resolution would allow the International Criminal Court to investigate possible war crimes and crimes against humanity that have taken place in the conflict that is now in is fourth year.
The UN Security Council vote will take place this morning and Gilmore has called on all members of the security council to support it:
War crimes have clearly been committed in Syria and we have a duty to ensure that there should be no impunity for those responsible. The International Criminal Court is the appropriate international forum for justice and accountability.
The vote is highly unlike to be passed however with Russia already indicating that they will veto the initiative.
Moscow’s ambassador to the UN yesterday dismissed the resolution as a a “publicity stunt” and said it would undermine efforts to find a political solution to the conflict in Syria.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has also announced that it will be providing an additional €5 million in humanitarian aid to Syria, bringing Ireland’s funding commitments in the Middle-Eastern nation to €26 million since 2011.
Chemical weapons inspectors in Syria this week said that the country had destroyed stocks of a key chemical needed to produce the deadly nerve gas sarin.
The joint UN chemical weapons mission said that 7.2 per cent of Syria’s chemical weapons material remains in the country.
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How do you tell the ethnicity of a puppet? Why did it take a year? So many questions
@Disco Inferno: it’s name I suppose, also just look at the furore about Big bird from Ted cruz
What ethnicity are Ernie and Bert?
@Edmund Spencer: more importantly who calls Bert and Ernie, Ernie and Bert. Also ethnicity is pretty obvious when they combine to form Bernie Sanders
@Darren Byrne: they’ve always been Ernie and Bert to me, this is the hill I am prepared to die on.
@mayo chicken: It will happen quickly, we’ll just bury you under all the officially licensed packaging that says “Bert & Ernie”.
@Darren Byrne: write it on my tombstone!
The best thing about this is that for the average person, it won’t bother them – but for the real right-wingers, they’ll be screaming bloody murder over it and it will be hilarious.
@Seán Ó Briain: Exactly.
Is she from north or south Korea I wonder?
@Ronan Walsh: she’s from America
Brilliant news. Great to see such an influential TV show giving these issues so much thought, giving kids the chance to learn what previous generations have not been exposed to often enough.
@Freudian Quip: what nonsense. Sesame Street has been a paragon of equality and diversity for over half a century.
Oh to be ji-young again .,
I hope Naomi will be actually able to take part in the show.
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