Keep your word
SF push for full implementation of Agreement
We are at a crisis in the peace process which can be resolved if
David Trimble and Tony Blair keep their word and implement the
Agreement they signed up to on 10 April.
The Agreement is quite explicit. By 31 October the Executive and
the other institutions have to be up and running, with the
Ministers' various remits agreed. There can be no preconditions.
In the last few days the Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has met
with the main participants in the crisis. In Belfast, Dublin and
at the British Labour Party Conference in Blackpool the Sinn Féin
leader has held meetings with David Trimble, Bertie Ahern, Tony
Blair, Mo Mowlam and others. The message has been clear. Those
who signed up to the Agreement in good faith must now implement
its provisions.
The 31 October deadline can be met if there is the political will
to do so. The decommissioning issue has been erected as a
roadblock throughout this process and when there was the
political will to build a process of conflict resolution the
roadblock has been overcome. That must happen now, using the
terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
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