Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has welcomed a report by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) that called for the immediate release of 3 Catalan political prisoners – former vice-president of Catalonia, Oriol Junqueras, and two Catalan civil society leaders, Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez. All were arrested and […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has said the violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar, carried out by the military and extremist Buddhist militias, is barbaric and clearly ethnic cleansing. Crowe has called on Ireland and the international community to do more to stop this ethnic cleansing, and to offer practical help […]
Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Seán Crowe, has commended the UN Human Rights Office for today releasing a hard hitting report into the serious human rights and international law violations by the Turkish security forces, in the majority Kurdish south-east of the country. Over half a million people have been displaced, 100,000 have dismissed from […]
Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Seán Crowe TD, welcomed that 191 countries supported a UN resolution calling for an end to the USA’s blockade of Cuba and that the USA abstained from voting against the annual resolution for the very first time. Deputy Crowe said: “The US Government first imposed economic, commercial, and financial restrictions […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has welcomed the news that a ceasefire in South Sudan, which comes after four days of heavy fighting, appears to be holding. Deputy Seán Crowe said: “Intense fighting broke out in South Sudan’s capital Juba on Thursday and it has resulted in 270 deaths, with many more injured, and […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has called on the acting Irish Government to ensure that there is a humanitarian response to the refugee crisis and to use its seat at the European Council to block a deal with Turkey which could violate international law. Deputy Crowe said: “The European Council will […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has welcomed that a motion calling for a lifting of the US blockade of Cuba was comprehensively passed at the United Nations. Deputy Crowe said: “A motion in the UN calling for an end to the illegal and inhuman economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Seán Crowe TD, has welcomed that 100 Irish troops that were deployed in the Golan Heights on a UN peacekeeping mission have returned home safely Deputy Seán Crowe said: “I would like to take this opportunity to welcome home the 100 Irish soldiers who have spent 7 […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Defence, Seán Crowe TD, has again raised his concerns around the safety of Irish troops stationed with the UN in Lebanon after the death of Spanish peacekeeper recently. During Parliamentary Questions to the Minister for Defence he also raised the case of Mahmoud Bazzi, the Lebanese national accused of murdering of […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, met Amina J. Mohammad, a special advisor on post-2015 development planning to the UN’s Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon. Crowe met Ms. Mohammad as part of an informal Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee meeting. Deputy Crowe said: “It was great to meet Ms. Mohammad today and discuss the […]
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