25 October 2002

Sinn Fein issues terms

Mitchell McLaughlin told the FT that going ahead with elections in May, full implimentation of the Patten Report, and tackling number of other issues could lead to:

"...a clearing of the decks and a reciprocal gesture from the IRA. What we would then see are incremental steps involving the removal of the IRA from the political landscape of Northern Ireland."

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