>Reply-To: "The Workers' Party of Ireland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: "The Workers' Party of Ireland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>NEWS RELEASE
>
>February 1st, 2000
>
>
>
>SINN FEIN TO BLAME FOR DECOMMISSIONING FAILURE
>
>
>"To keep repeating the mantra that 'the guns are silent' is no longer
>acceptable," Workers Party President Tom French said today.
>
>Mr French, commenting on the whole issue of decommissioning said, "No
>democrat should be expected to enter into government with people who have a
>private army. Everyone has bent over backwards to try and accommodate Sinn
>Fein and the Provisional IRA, however they have simply thumbed their noses
>at both the SDLP and the Ulster Unionist Party.
>
>"Sinn Fein should stop trying to blame everyone else in Northern Ireland for
>their complete failure to live up to the Good Friday Agreement. They cannot
>blame the Ulster Unionist Party, the London or Dublin Governments. All have
>acted similarly in the manner of decommissioning. In Fact Bertie Ahern is on
>record as stating if Sinn Fein were in a position in the Irish Republic to
>negotiate a coalition government he would not talk to them until IRA arms
>and explosives were decommissioned, so there is no difference between him
>and David Trimble."
>
>Mr French continued, "If the Assembly is suspended and there is a return to
>direct rule in a few days it will be nobody's fault except that of the
>Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein. They have treated all gestures to accommodate
>them as a sign of weakness and acted accordingly treating compromise with
>contempt."
>
>
>"It seems that Gerry Adams and company are prepared to let peace and
>political progress die on the altar of provisional dogma," added the
>Workers' Party President.
>
> ENDS
>
>
>John Jefferies, Press Officer
>
>Tom French may be contacted at Lurgan (08)07162 341446 (home)
>
>
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