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Clinton vows help to solve N. Ireland deadlock
AFP - Tuesday, October 13
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BELFAST (AFP) - – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will on Monday offer renewed US support for Northern Ireland's peace process and help to resolve a political stand-off threatening its power-sharing government.
Clinton is in Belfast to meet the province's leaders and make a major speech to its assembly, in a bid to boost efforts to defuse the row which has brought the fragile cross-community administration to a standstill.
Northern Ireland's main parties are at loggerheads over the transfer of police and justice powers from London to Belfast as part of the devolution process.
First Minister Peter Robinson's Democratic Unionist Party and his deputy Martin McGuinness's Sinn Fein agree in principle on the transfer of responsibility, but disagree over the timing and details.
The power-sharing administration took office in Belfast in May 2007 after elections and a landmark accord between the Protestant, conservative, pro-British DUP and Catholic socialist republicans Sinn Fein, long fierce rivals.
Republicans want Northern Ireland to leave the United Kingdom and join the Republic of Ireland to the south.
"I will certainly provide as much encouragement and support as I can" in efforts to resolve the deadlock, Clinton was to say in her address at Belfast's Stormont seat of government.
Clinton will be the highest-ranking foreign government official to address the devolved body, according to officials organising the secretary's trip.
"This is a critical moment," a senior State Department official told reporters travelling with Clinton.
"There's an opportunity to advance and complete a set of measures that they've been working on for a long time. Failing to do that would risk leading to either stagnation or regression," he said.
On Sunday, Clinton visited London and Dublin, key brokers in the peace process, where she said the men of violence were history and vowed US political support for Northern Ireland's leaders, and investment for its economy.
During a press conference in Dublin with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, Clinton said remaining differences can be overcome.
"Clearly there are questions and some apprehensions," she said.
"But I believe that due to the concerted effort of the British government, the Irish government, the support of friends like us in the United States, that the parties understand that this is a step they must take together."
In London, Clinton stressed the need to fully implement the peace process started by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended three decades of the so-called Troubles in Northern Ireland which killed at least 3,500 people.
"To me, terrorism is terrorism. Those who would try to disrupt the peace of people going about their daily lives are out of step and out of time," she told reporters after talks with Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
In addition to the political row, fears of renewed violence were raised in March when two British soldiers and a policeman were killed in attacks claimed by dissident republican paramilitary groups.
On Sunday, a republican group responsible for dozens of murders during the Troubles announced it was laying down its arms.
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), said "the armed struggle is over".
Clinton's husband was heavily involved in the Northern Ireland peace process during his 1993-2001 tenure as US president.
Former Irish premier Bertie Ahern, who helped forge the Good Friday Agreement along with then premier Tony Blair, warned that the police and justice standoff "has the potential to derail the process.
"That should not be allowed to happen," he told BBC radio, adding: "It is an issue which has the ability to knock things off and that's why Hillary Clinton herself... wants to meet the parties."
"It should be signed off in my view as quickly as possible," he said.
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