Trimble warning over agreement
The Good Friday agreement is being undermined, Ulster unionist leader David Trimble claimed today.
The Northern Ireland First minister hit out at an attempt to resolve the issue of around 30 paramilitaries on the run and proposals to allow Northern Irish politicians to have speaking rights in the Dáil at the end of a cross party discussion on the Good Friday agreement chaired by the British and Irish governments.
Mr Trimble said: ‘‘We want to see the agreement implemented.
‘‘We don’t need things that are not in the agreement and that specifically refers firstly to the question of a form of amnesty for on-the-run terrorists.
‘‘That’s not in the agreement. There is no amnesty. There is no anomaly (on these paramilitaries) and there is no need therefore to extend outside the agreement.
‘‘We are also very concerned about this new channel, this sort of parallel process that the Irish Government is proposing to open up in terms of giving representatives in Northern Ireland facilities in the Dáil.
‘‘That again is not in the agreement and would tend to undermine one of the central parts of the agreement.’’
