Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 July 2015
249. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on possible air strikes against the group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in the parts of Syria this group controls. [28142/15]
View answerIreland fully supports the removal of the terrorist threat posed by the ISIS group, consistent with international law. Air strikes have been conducted against ISIS in Iraq and Syria for a number of months. It is for individual States to determine in what way they might best contribute to the concerted international effort underway to tackle the threat posed by ISIS and other fundamentalist jihadists. I understand that the states involved in military action against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria are acting at the request of the Iraqi government in the exercise of its inherent right to individual or collective self-defence pending action by the Security Council to restore international peace and security as recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations and as notified by the US to the UN Secretary General on 23 September 2014.
