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Date Posted: 01:30:06 09/20/04 Mon GMT
Author: Lynn
Subject: Progress reported in talks on NI (Indianapolis Star and News)

Progress reported in talks on N. Ireland
Protestants, party linked to IRA each make a demand.

Associated Press
September 18, 2004
 
LEEDS CASTLE, England -- A deal taking shape Friday in negotiations on Northern Ireland's future would require the outlawed Irish Republican Army to resume disarmament and issue a new statement that, for the first time, would definitively renounceviolence.
In return, however, the IRA-linked Sinn Fein party is demanding an ironclad commitment from the Democratic Unionists, the major British Protestant party, to form and sustain a joint administration.
All sides reported progress on day two of the talks, which are being led by the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, respectively. They predicted negotiations would continue today.
Both premiers insist this will be their last major push to revive a Roman Catholic-Protestant administration in the British territory, the central goal of Northern Ireland's Good Friday accord of 1998.
The Democratic Unionists, who still refuse to talk face-to-face with Sinn Fein leaders, insist they will not agree to any deal until after the IRA delivers a large-scale disarmament plan and a clear promise never to use violence again.

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