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The United Nations Building in New York. Geoff Daniels/PA

Eamon Gilmore calls for support on UN Syria, but Russia's already said no

The resolution will seek to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court.

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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    Mute Adrian
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    Mar 11th 2019, 8:03 AM

    Me thinks the gov tried to pull a fast one on the nurses.

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    Mute William Bryan
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    Mar 11th 2019, 12:52 PM

    @Adrian: they were sold a pup, plain and simple

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    Mute Dorothy
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    Mar 11th 2019, 1:34 PM

    @William Bryan: they didn’t buy anything yet so they were sold nothing! They had to negotiate once any offer was made

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    Mute Adrian
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    Mar 11th 2019, 1:40 PM

    @William Bryan: we can all see what they were trying to do, all they wanted was to take the heat off when the hospital costs scandal was coming out. I wouldn’t trust this gov as far as i could throw them. They’re honest about nothing.

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    Mute Milk The Drones
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    Mar 11th 2019, 1:42 PM

    Back out on the streets boys and girls and don’t let them hoodwink you a second time. We’re all 100% behind you.

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    Mute john s
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    Mar 11th 2019, 1:56 PM

    @Adrian: what did the government do that the unions did not accept and recommend to their members?

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    Mute Owen Lynch
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    Mar 11th 2019, 2:26 PM

    @Adrian: We all know the senior nurses don’t give 2 f***s about the junior nurses.

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    Mute Marguerite Hoiby
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    Mar 11th 2019, 3:37 PM

    @Adrian: Me thinks the INMO finally realised who was paying their fat salaries!!!

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    Mute William Bryan
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    Mar 11th 2019, 7:42 PM

    @Dorothy: they called off their strikes, hook line and sinker

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    Mute Irish Genius
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    Mar 11th 2019, 8:10 AM

    The government bought time to take the heat off nothing more, I support the nurses 100%

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    Mute Happy Out
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    Mar 11th 2019, 1:44 PM

    @Irish Genius: Brushed under the carpet, just like the price of the new Dublin hospital. No one is talking about the leaked Simon Harris and BAM meeting..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvbeCTIYMMY

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    Mute Dave Doyle
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    Mar 11th 2019, 8:08 AM

    Nurses being sold a pup by government and unions.

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    Mute Charlotte Bolger
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    Mar 11th 2019, 8:29 AM

    Nurses say NO and keep saying NO to Donohue, Harris and the HSE. Donohue in particular is unimaginative, and mean in his outlook overall.

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    Mute Robbie Redmond
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    Mar 11th 2019, 9:15 AM

    The government have managed to disrupt the momentum which was their aim all along, unions should now realize that not an inch should be conceded until the justified demands of nurses are met.

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    Mute Arch Angel
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    Mar 11th 2019, 12:08 PM

    @Robbie Redmond: In fairness both sides in this dispute have been less than forthright, the nurses originally gave examples of 1st year nurses being paid €26 k. However once the deal appeared to have been done with the INMO and government there was some reticence among nurses, the following day their union gave an example of a named 1st year student nurse who would currently earn €32 k see her salary increase to €38 k. Clearly this flies in the face of what was originally claimed.
    There was also considerable grumblings among nursing managers who work an 8 hour day, 5 day per week with no opportunity for overtime. While they are paid substantially more they feel that, with the recent increases, the salaries of the lower paid staff nurses, in conjunction with overtime, may see them earn more than the nursing managers. There has been calls among these managers for compensation due to their reduced wage gap.
    This illustrates that, despite the flowery rhetoric, this dispute was all about paying nurses more money, nothing more. And not just the junior nurses, the managers wanted their cut of the pie too.

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    Mute john s
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    Mar 11th 2019, 2:14 PM

    @Robbie Redmond: unions recommended the deal that they where part of making .

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    Mute William Mcgee
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    Mar 11th 2019, 8:31 AM

    Now that the ball is rolling , keep it moving or ye will end up back where ye started .

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    Mute Ron Noco
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    Mar 11th 2019, 11:57 AM

    Invest in the young nurses, sponsor their education and pay them on work placement … in return they have to agree to work at least two years for the HSE after qualifying … this would help to insure a steady supply of new recruits every year … also wouldn’t effect the public sector wage agreement

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    Mute Charles Coughlan
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    Mar 11th 2019, 1:42 PM

    The Government doesn’t have any issues giving their Ministers take home pension of up to €3500 a week on top of paying themselves the highest salaries of Government representatives in any country in the world that I am aware of.

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    Mute Unitedpeople
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    Mar 11th 2019, 9:28 AM

    FG is giving a crappy deal. It’s pittance to what they are fully owed already.

    While FG is also saying there is no money for our essential service staff, they are quietly giving €3.5+ Billion Euro away to the EU army setup called by it’s PR name “PESCO”. This new EU arms race Ireland has been put into, includes the construction of France/Germany fighter plane that Irish taxpayer money will be equally going towards.

    Don’t take our word for it. Check it all out independently.
    …And of course, RTE and other biased media is not reporting all this.
    Meanwhile, home situations are being left money starved including our nurses trying to gain what they are already long owed.

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    Mute limofax
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    Mar 11th 2019, 9:54 AM

    @Unitedpeople: I’ll take RTE’s word for it as that’s where I heard this first.

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    Mute Unitedpeople
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    Mar 11th 2019, 1:51 PM

    @limofax: And we can be sure you haven’t heard first from RTE, about the rest, regularly.

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    Mar 11th 2019, 2:48 PM

    @Unitedpeople: actually, I heard everything you said in your post on RTE.

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    Mute Gerry Corbett
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    Mar 11th 2019, 3:48 PM

    To call off a strike and enter discussions on contract change without knowing the other sides proposed contract changes shows an unbelievable naivety on the part of INMO negotiating team
    They were played, simple as, To recover this ground in the eyes of their membership will require achieving restoration, and parity in full.

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    Mute Kate Mchugh Moylan
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    Mar 11th 2019, 2:44 PM

    Wonder if nurses and midwives were a predominantly male workforce would this be happening? a few years ago bus drivers went on strike to get a pay rise which meant there pay went up to €55000 a year something nurses and midwives won’t earn for 10 years , actually makes me sick !

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    Mar 11th 2019, 7:43 PM

    @Kate Mchugh Moylan: dumbest comment award goes to…….

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    Mute Willy
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    Mar 11th 2019, 1:48 PM

    Nurses need wait whilst ffg ensure funds for banking debts and EU army. RTE never report what they should. Wake up Ireland. Promised no EU army for Ireland , yet billions being put into this army and so , Irish just suck it up..

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    Mute Charles Coughlan
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    Mar 11th 2019, 1:55 PM

    @Willy: This propped up Government is not a Government of the people and that is for sure, problem is that sheep are foolish enough to vote FF, the other side of the same coin in the next election.

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    Mar 11th 2019, 4:20 PM

    The govt are giving the inmo the fingers i would assume the other unions that are a party to the public sector agreement have warned the govt that they will row in on the back of any concessions to the nurses

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    Mute Nicky O'Donnell
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    Mar 12th 2019, 11:04 AM

    The INMO leadership needs to be swept aside now. They are clearly out of touch with the membership as they recommended acceptance of this pathetic deal, but were overwhelmingly defeated.

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