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Gov't cautiously welcomes ceasefire by N.Ireland loyalists.
(From Agence France Presse)
Britain gave a guarded welcome to a one-year ceasefire announced by Northern Ireland's biggest Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
"It's a step in the right direction but it must result in the end of all paramilitary activities," Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy said Saturday.
Earlier the UDA, which on Thursday had dumped some of its explosives in a move designed to halt fighting between rival Protestant factions, said it was calling on its various groupings to observe a period of "military inactivity".
"As from February 21, 2003 all units of the Ulster Freedom Fighters, the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Young Militants in mainland Britain and in Northern Ireland have begun to observe a 12-month period of military inactivity," said the statement released by the Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), a front organisation for the banned UDA.
"This period will be monitored internally every three months to ensure that there is real and genuine political movement during and after the election of the new assembly in Northern Ireland," it added, referring to fresh polls due on May 1 for the province's power-sharing assembly.
Britain suspended the assembly in October to avert a threatened walk-out by Protestants that would have triggered the collapse of the power-sharing institutions established under the 1998 Good Friday agreement.
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