Mary Robinson,Ireland has "frontline role" on UN Security Council
Speaking as she met the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen, Mary Robinson said an "enormous responsibility" also lay with the UN Security Council and that she was personally glad Ireland would be chairing it.
She admitted that in New York she could sense a mood for war, adding it was now a case of making sure the perpetrators were handed over, including Osama bin Laden. Ireland now had a "frontline role" in the Security Council and must take a lead in determining what happens next, she said.
Minister Cowen said that Ireland was taking over the Security Council at a difficult time in world affairs, that defeating terror would be a "long haul" and the international community "must operate in a way consistent to the values we are trying to defend".
