Cowen due in Belfast for talks
24/02/2004 - 08:06:20Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen is due to travel to Belfast today to oversee the ongoing review of the Good Friday Agreement.
The talks were due to focus on North-South relations, but they are more likely to be dominated by the alleged involvement of the Provisional IRA in an abduction attempt in Belfast last Friday.
Northern Secretary Paul Murphy met PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde and other security advisers yesterday to discuss the abduction.
Earlier, Mr Murphy held what he called “plain-speaking” talks with Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.
The DUP and UUP have both called for Sinn Féin to be excluded from the review of the agreement because of the IRA’s alleged involvement in the abduction.
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