PDs condemn IRA u-turn on weapons decommissioning
03/02/2005 - 14:25:23The Progressive Democrats have condemned the IRA for withdrawing its offer to decommission all its weapons.
In a statement last night, the IRA said the move was prompted by growing Irish-British antagonism towards the republican movement.
The Irish and British governments have been adamant that the IRA was behind the recent £26.5m (€28m) bank robbery in Belfast, but the organisation has been equally adamant that it was not involved.
PD chairman Tom Morrissey said today that the IRA's u-turn on decommissioning was unsurprising given the IRA's previous refusal to give an undertaking not to "endanger anyone's personal rights and safety".
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