Trimble: Majority of unionists support agreement

Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble has insisted that a majority of unionists still support the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble has insisted that a majority of unionists still support the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

In a speech to the Church of Scotland in Inverness, Mr Trimble said opinion polls show 60% of Protestants in the North wanted the agreement to succeed.

He claimed this figure would rise to 75% if the IRA decommissioned and disbanded.

The UUP leader said unionists had nothing to fear from the IRA, but he warned that they would no longer tolerate "republican duplicity".

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