Ongoing invasions in Ukraine and Gaza are jeopardising peacekeeping missions

Lieutenant General Seán Clancy, who takes a top EU job next year, told a seminar on the partnerships between Nato, UN, and the EU in the Belgian Ambassador's residence that given Ireland’s history of peacekeeping it is a “matter of concern” that the Security Council has not established a new peacekeeping operation in over a decade. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing fighting in Gaza has demonstrated “the potential to paralyse” the UN Security Council, the chief of staff of the Irish Defence Forces has said.

Lieutenant General Seán Clancy, who takes a top EU job next year, told a seminar on the partnerships between Nato, UN, and the EU in the Belgian Ambassador's residence that given Ireland’s history of peacekeeping it is a “matter of concern” that the Security Council has not established a new peacekeeping operation in over a decade.