Bertie Ahern
Bertie Ahern
Patrick Bartholomew "Bertie" Ahernis a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 26 June 1997 to 7 May 2008...
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I spoke to Jose Manuel last night and was happy to share this information with him. It is a great tribute to the prime minister and to Portugal that colleagues have expressed such support for him and wish to see him accept this appointment.
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I'm not a soldier and I don't want to be, and quite frankly I don't care about the brand name of the guns and that sort of thing.
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This is not a time for sitting back. It's not a time for complacency. We cannot afford a prolonged stalemate.
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This is an area in which our views are well known to the U.S. government,
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As all parties examine the proposals that Tony Blair and I issued them, no doubt they will have some points of clarification. Already Mr. Trimble has stated he has some.
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that the weapons and explosives are safely and adequately stored and cannot be used without the knowledge of Mr. Ahtisaari and Mr. Ramaphosa, who will re-inspect the arms dumps on a regular basis to ensure that the weapons have remained secure.
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Your even-handed support and wise counsel continues to be an invaluable resource to us for our search for lasting peace,
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This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like to see grown men bickering.
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People should not allow themselves to be deflected or disheartened, ... determined that, working closely with the British government and the parties, a way can and will be found to implement the agreement in full.
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I would be a disaster, to put it at its mildest, if any of the institutions were to slide. I think people need to think very, very hard,
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If they don't, we will intensify every single effort that I can physically and possibly do legislatively, and with the security forces, to break these organizations,
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Obviously we had wished to be able to present the proposals in the context of full agreement. (But) we are on the brink of an accommodation that would have been regarded as impossible not that long ago.
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As we strive today to become one of the most vibrant knowledge societies in the world, our future economic development will depend to a large degree on our ability to generate new knowledge and to innovate,