Make conflict a thing of the past
Text of Gerry Adams's statement issued on Tuesday 1 September
My position on what happened in Omagh on 15 August is quite
categoric. I have condemned it without equivocation.
This appalling act was carried out by those opposed to the peace
process.
It is designed to wreck the process and everyone should work to
ensure the peace process continues as it is the clear wish of the
people of the island.
Sinn Fein has called for a complete halt to such actions and has
urged all armed groups to stop immediately.
Those responsible are aligning themselves with the forces opposed
to a democratic settlement in the conflict here.
Sinn Fein is committed to exclusively peaceful and democratic
means to achieve a way forward.
We have to work politically to make the Omagh bombing the last
violent incident in our country, the last incident of this kind.
We are committed to making conflict a thing of the past.
There is a shared responsibility to removing the causes and to
achieving an end to all conflict.
Sinn Fein believe the violence we have seen must be for all of us
now a thing of the past, over, done with and gone.
In particular, the two governments have the principal
responsibility, as do the party leaders.
I am committed to play my part, as is Sinn Fein. Our role in the
peace process provides a substantial body of irrefutable evidence
to support this.
The Good Friday Agreement has the powerful potential to take us
forward and we must urgently press on with its implementation.
Inclusive and honest dialogue is the only way forward in this
country.
We need to map a path out of the dark tunnel that people feel
themselves to be in.
There is much despair around and the vacuum that has been created
must be filled.
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