Ireland and the United Kingdom should jointly establish naval patrols to protect undersea communications cables, gas and electricity pipelines and other key assets from Russian aggression, the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly (BIPA) has said.
A joint statutory Cables Protection Commission including civilian and military representatives should firstly map all cables serving the two countries, as well as those linking both with continental Europe and North America, the assembly said.
Noting agreements this year between Ireland and the UK, and the UK and the European Union, the a
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