Time to prove we have a real foreign policy

IT IS high time that the Government made its position clear on the impending conflict in Iraq.

Both the Taoiseach and Minister for Foreign Affairs have refused to rule out co-operation with the US in the absence of a UN mandate.

The apparent determination of the US and the UK to prosecute a massive conflict with potentially serious loss of life calls for a loud and clear statement from all countries concerned with humanity and the rule of international law.