TRIMBLE ATTACKS SF AT PEACE CONFERENCE
Trimble attacks SF at peace conference
The North's First Minister David Trimble used a peace conference in Sarajevo to attack Sinn Fein leaders opposing anti-terrorism measures proposed after the Omagh outrage.
Speaking at a conference on ending armed conflicts in the Bosnian capital, Mr Trimble, said the British and Irish governments were committed to "defending the democratic choice".
But "he added: "It is not 'encouraging at the moment ' that the political representative of Irish republicanism, named Sinn Fein, personified by Mr Gerry Adam's and Mr Martin McGuinness, are the measures that are deemed necessary or that those governments are bringing forward in order to deal with the on-going terrorism."
Mr Adams did not attend the conference.
Also addressing the gathering, Lord Alderdice, speaker of the new Assembly, said the North was "on the threshold of building something new" following the April peace agreement. But the pain of our past is not yet in the past. If we institutionalise the divisions, then somewhere along the road, I fear (the peace process) may break down again."
The North's First Minister David Trimble used a peace conference in Sarajevo to attack Sinn Fein leaders opposing anti-terrorism measures proposed after the Omagh outrage.
Speaking at a conference on ending armed conflicts in the Bosnian capital, Mr Trimble, said the British and Irish governments were committed to "defending the democratic choice".
But "he added: "It is not 'encouraging at the moment ' that the political representative of Irish republicanism, named Sinn Fein, personified by Mr Gerry Adam's and Mr Martin McGuinness, are the measures that are deemed necessary or that those governments are bringing forward in order to deal with the on-going terrorism."
Mr Adams did not attend the conference.
Also addressing the gathering, Lord Alderdice, speaker of the new Assembly, said the North was "on the threshold of building something new" following the April peace agreement. But the pain of our past is not yet in the past. If we institutionalise the divisions, then somewhere along the road, I fear (the peace process) may break down again."
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Publisher: IRISH INDEPENDENT
Ref: II/130
Published Date: 28-Aug-98
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