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IRA must declare war over before assembly can be restored: Trimble.
(From Agence France Presse)
Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble warned Northern Ireland's suspended assembly cannot be restored until the IRA declares its war on the British state is finally over.
"Their acts must start with proper open decommissioning (disarmament) and continue with saying the war is over and ensuring that it will not start again," Trimble said shortly after being re-elected as head of the Ulster Unionist Party.
Trimble was first minister in the assembly, which Britain suspended 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.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern are due in Belfast on Monday with the immediate aim of restoring the assembly so local elections scheduled for early May can go ahead.
But Trimble, noting that "we ...
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