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Fri 07 Jul 1999Mitchell review must not permit unionists to renegotiate agreement
From the signing of the Good Friday agreement in April 1998 until the UUP prevented the transfer of power and the establishment of the institutions two weeks ago, the peace process has limped from one unionist-induced crisis to another. This is not a blip, but the possible meltdown of the political conditions that led to the agreement.
Sinn Fein's commitment to this process goes back more than a decade and was signalled publicly with the publishing of Towards a Lasting Peace in 1991. This was followed by many initiatives which republicans have taken both unilaterally and along with others in nationalist Ireland and abroad.
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