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> Wednesday, July 21, 1999
> IRA warns on progress of Agreement
>
>
>
> 10.00 p.m. The IRA tonight issued a hardline statement which is
> highly critical of both unionists and the British government for
> the lack of progress in implementing the Belfast Agreement.
>
> A strongly-worded statement claimed the potential of last year's
> accord to "deliver tangible" progress had substantially
> diminished.
>
> The statement recalled that the first of its cessations of
> violence, which collapsed with the Canary Wharf bombing in
> London, had "floundered on the demand of the Conservative
> government for an IRA surrender".
>
> And it added: "Those who demand the decommissioning of IRA
> weapons lend themselves, in the current political context,
> inadvertently or otherwise, to the failed agenda which seeks the
> defeat of the IRA.
>
> "The British Government have the power to change that context and
> should do so."
>
> The IRA declaration was issued in Dublin following last week's
> failure to establish a power-sharing governing executive in
> Northern Ireland.
>
> - (PA)
> Wednesday, July 21, 1999
> IRA statement - full text
>
>
>
> "The argument that the present political process can deliver real
> and meaningful change has been significantly undermined by the
> course of events over the past 15 months.
>
> "This culminated in the failure last week to establish the
> political institutions set out in the Good Friday agreement.
>
> "The agreement has failed to deliver tangible process and its
> potential for doing so has substantially diminished in recent
> months.
>
> "The credibility and motivation of unionist leaders who signed up
> to the agreement is clearly open to question. They have
> repeatedly reneged on the commitments they made in signing the
> agreement and successfully blocked the implementation of its
> institutional aspects.
>
> "It is clearly their intention to continue their obstructionist
> tactics indefinitely. There is irrefutable evidence that the
> unionist political leadership remains at this time opposed to a
> democratic peace settlement.
>
> "Recent events at Stormont cannot obscure the fact that the
> primary responsibility for the developing political crisis rests
> squarely with the British government. They have once again
> demonstrated a lack of political will to confront the unionist
> veto.
>
> "Over the past five years we have called and maintained two
> prolonged cessations of military operations to enhance the peace
> process and underline our definitive commitment to its success.
>
> "We contributed in a meaningful way to the creation of a climate,
> which could facilitate the search for a durable settlement.
>
> "The first of these cessations floundered on the demand by the
> Conservative government for an IRA surrender. Those who demand
> the decommissioning of IRA weapons lend themselves in the current
> political context, inadvertently or otherwise, to the failed
> agenda which seeks the defeat of the IRA.
>
> "The British government have the power to change that context and
> should do so.
>
> "It remains our view that the roots of conflict in our country
> lie in British involvement in Irish affairs.
>
> "Responsibility for repairing the damage to the argument that the
> present political process can deliver real change rests primarily
> with the British government."
>From TheIrishTimes
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