爱尔兰议会79票对71票通过国防修正案：取消海外派兵须联合国批准的要求
都柏林——爱尔兰众议院10月21日以79票对71票通过《国防（修正）法案》，取消「三重锁」机制中联合国批准这一环，今后向海外派兵只须政府与众议院批准；无须议会批准即可派遣的人数上限则由12人提高至50人。国防部长 Helen McEntee 表示，联合国安理会五个常任理事国不应能阻挡爱尔兰的派兵决定。政府称，安理会自2014年以来未再批准新任务，爱尔兰部队此前已被迫退出欧盟 Operation Irini 行动与联合国驻黎巴嫩部队。爱尔兰不是北约成员国，其国防军现役人员八千余人。
Ireland's Parliament Votes 79-71 to Drop UN Approval Requirement for Overseas Troop Deployments
DUBLIN — Ireland's Dáil voted 79 to 71 on October 21 to pass the Defence (Amendment) Bill, dropping the United Nations approval leg of the 'triple lock' governing overseas troop deployments; government and Dáil approval will still be required, and the number of personnel deployable without parliamentary approval rises from 12 to 50. Defence Minister Helen McEntee argued that the five permanent members of the UN Security Council should not be able to block Irish deployments. The government says the Security Council has not approved a mission since 2014, and that Irish forces already had to pull out of the EU's Operation Irini and the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon, which ends later this year. Ireland is not a NATO member, and its Defence Forces number a little over 8,000.
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图片来源：都柏林半便士桥 / Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin。图片：© Sean MacEntee from Monaghan, Ireland / CC BY 2.0，Wikimedia Commons
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