The people are entitled to know what has been negotiated, |
The psychological mindset that is required for peacemaking is absent from Unionist thinking, |
The RUC have been tolerating road and street blocks being set up. There have been Catholics evicted from their homes by mobs. All of this raises the temperature, |
The RUC have been tolerating road and street blocks being set up. There have been Catholics evicted from their homes by mobs. All of this raises the temperature. |
The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced. |
The two governments have opted for confrontation. They are engaging in the sterile politics of the blame game without any regard for the consequences. |
The two governments, the UUP and other parties should grasp the new opportunity that this unprecedented statement from the IICD creates. |
The White House has decided not to invite the Irish parties to the White House; that would be a disappointment. But do I interpret this as a movement by this administration away from the peace process? No, I don't. I don't. And if I did, I would be very very perturbed, |
the worst crisis this process has been in, |
There has been quite a lot of progress made and I think we will continue to make progress, |
There is a hope out there and which was not there a decade or more ago, so I certainly hope they will bring back a package, and not just a package but a package that can deliver the Good Friday Agreement. |
There is a need to get the British government, in particular, to renovate the assembly, which is part of the 'Good Friday' agreement, and which has never met since the elections two years ago. |
There is bound to be distrust here. People have been hurt, people have been killed. There is bound to be suspicion. There is bound to be hatred. There is bound to be fear. And the way to resolve that is to seize that opportunity and build on that opportunity and widen the space which has been created. |
There is no basis for such a motion and David Trimble knows that. |
There is no evidence to back that up. And, on the contrary, the IRA, in a number of high-profile statements, have made it very, very clear that people should not be intimidated. |