Higgins calls for urgent meeting of foreign affairs committee to discuss Middle East crisis
Issued : Thursday 27 July, 2006
Labour Party President and Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Michael D Higgins has called for the recall of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, in order to discuss the ongoing and escalating crisis in Lebanon.
Deputy Higgins said: “I have today sent a formal letter to Dr Michael Woods, chairman of the Committee, asking that the Committee meet as a matter of urgency, possibly early next week.
“The ongoing debacle in Lebanon makes a meeting of the Committee imperative. Hundreds have been killed, thousands injured and in the region of three quarters of a million people displaced. The Oireachtas must at least convene a meeting of its Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss this ongoing crisis.”
