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OPINION:A neutral state cannot legally or politically sign up to the Lisbon Treaty mutual assistance clause because it violates neutrality, writes Karen Devine. 

I WISH to thank Patrick Keatinge, Peadar Ó Broin and Ben Tonra for raising points in their article of December 6th about my article on neutrality and the Lisbon Treaty, published in The Irish Timeson November 27th.