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There are 60 members of the Northern Ireland legislative assembly voting in today’s election, and only a simple majority is needed to put Trimble back in office. However, the DUP and even some members of Trimble’s own party (the Ulster Unionists Party or UUP) are objecting to pushing forward with the peace process because they think the IRA hasn’t put in enough effort to disarm. Unfortunately, the decommissioning (or disarming) process is all very secretive, and it is overseen by a neutral decommissioning body, led by General John de Chastelain...
...broken promises in the past and could do so in future. If Trimble is restored to power, he needs to make sure that General de Chastelain reports regularly on what progress is being made. At the same time, paramilitaries on the unionist side must be forced to disarm. The Ulster Freedom Fighters (who are connected with Paisely’s UDA) and Ulster Volunteer Force are smaller than the IRA but equally dangerous to the peace process. They, along with small nationalist paramilitary groups such as the Real IRA, must be forced to disband and disarm...
...part of the Israeli response to Ze?evi?s murder. Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Australia and dozens of other countries as public health officials examined letters and packages containing suspicious powder, but found nothing. NORTHERN IRELAND Unionists Quit Protestant leaders resigned from the power-sharing government in Belfast, pushing Ulster's home rule closer to total collapse. Unionists said they would return only if the Irish Republican Army began disarming within a week. Although the I.R.A.'s political wing Sinn Fein hinted that progress was possible, the tight timescale may mean a return to direct rule from London...
...wake of the horrific terrorist attacks on America, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is now encountering a more resolute, determined opposition. This past Saturday, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader David Trimble delivered an ultimatum to Sinn Fein, the IRA’s political wing. Trimble announced that unless the paramilitary group began “a credible process of decommissioning” its weapons in accordance with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the UUP would withdraw its three ministers from the executive and abandon Northern Ireland’s unstable alliance government...
...Ulster Unionists have stood firm against the desires of terrorists and sought to uphold the tenuous peace agreements of 1998. Trimble’s demands of the IRA are more than reasonable. As he stressed on Saturday, “The promise was made that they would put weapons beyond use. There is a procedure, there is a decommissioning commission, there is legislation, there is a decommissioning scheme...