Sinn Fein is not going to the negotiating table to strengthen the union -- we are going to the negotiating table to smash the union. |
the final chapter on the issue of I.R.A. arms. |
The IRA's decision on July 28th to formally end its armed campaign has changed the political landscape in Ireland forever. I am confident that tomorrow will bring the final chapter on the issue of IRA arms. I believe that Ireland stands on the cusp of a truly historic advance, and I hope that people across the island will respond positively in the time ahead. |
The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country. |
The tragedy of all this is that we are seeing within the talks process unionists refusing to negotiate, whilst outside the talks process Catholics are being murdered. |
This is a make-your-mind-up year for everyone, not least the two governments. This is the year in which the fate and future of the Good Friday Agreement has to be decided. |
time to stop all the stalling and delaying tactics (by Trimble) and move forward to bring the peace settlement. |
totally unfounded and misleading. |
We are hoping there can be a democratic settlement and we are very determined to build a new future for all of the children of this island. |
We are more than willing to go into government with the Rev. Ian Paisley and his party, but we are not going into limbo with him. |
We have not accepted the document as a basis for negotiation, and we intend going to the talks to oppose the document. |
We want to see the British government recognizing the rights of all the people in this island, Catholic and Protestant, unionist and nationalist, to self-determination. ... It is quite clear the British government and leaders of unionist parties are afraid to negotiate that. |
Well, absolutely, it's in ruins. But we are passionately of the opinion that there needs to be a very serious attempt to reconstruct a new peace process. |
What would a public inquiry achieve? |