Word: fein
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...While the Ulster Unionists, SDLP and Sinn Fein back the deal, minority Unionist parties and a splinter group of IRA gunmen have come out strongly against it. ?What we will not do... is engage in a process that ignores Britain?s centuries-old subjugation of the Irish nation,? read a statement from the Irish National Liberation Army. Which shows how difficult it will be to achieve the next goal on the road to peace -- the decommissioning of weapons...
LONDON: Never mind the posturing over Sinn Fein?s readmission to Northern Ireland peace talks -- today?s meeting between Gerry Adams and British prime minister Tony Blair revealed that the two sides are in fact close to agreement on a final settlement over the territory?s future, says TIME?s London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand...
...Although the meeting had been called to discuss Sinn Fein?s readmission, discussion moved quickly onto the issues that remain to be resolved as part of a comprehensive settlement. ?The real news is that they?re within sight of an agreement on a new political framework for Northern Ireland,? says Hillenbrand...
...Britain Seeks Sinn Fein Expulsion London's probable expulsion of Republicans from Irish peace talks following two killings last week has cast doubt over the future of the process...
...Mowlam, Britain?s secretary of state for Northern Ireland, wasn?t yet saying whether she?d ask for Sinn Fein to be kicked out of the Stormont talks. The Protestant terrorist group UDA was shown the door two weeks ago when it gunned down three Catholic civilians -- violating the all-important pledge of nonviolence. Sinn Fein spent Thursday protesting its innocence, perhaps a little too loudly. ?We do not speak for any armed group,? said leader Gerry Adams, denying what he?d always tacitly admitted -- regular contact with the Republican Army council. In a short statement, the IRA said...