Sir, - Gerry Adams stated: "The democratic rights and entitlements of nationalists and republicans cannot be conditional." What are these nationalist and republican rights? Irish people in Northern Ireland have a fundamental and inalienable right to govern themselves. The Good Friday agreement does not resolve the issue of the Irish right to self-determination.
Referring to unionists, Mr Adams said: "Our collective responsibility at this time is to settle our differences, and I appeal to the leaders of unionism to join with us in doing that, so that all sections of our people can go forward on the basis of equality."
Does he mean on the basis of equal self-determination as of right, or on the basis of the coercion of the Ulster Protestant people into a "United" Ireland republic? - Yours, etc.,
Malachy Scott, Belfast 15.