David Trimble
David Trimble
William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC, is a British politician who was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002, and the leader of the Ulster Unionist Partyfrom 1995 to 2005. He was also the Member of Parliament for Upper Bann from 1990 to 2005 and the Member of the Legislative Assemblyfor Upper Bann from 1998 to 2007. In 2006, he was made a life peer in the House of Lords and a year later left the...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 October 1944
CityBangor, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
Our proposal to him, expressed very strongly indeed, is that that is the course he should follow,
Our principal objective is ... to see the administration re-formed but re-formed on a sound basis.
This clears the way for the transfer of power from London to the Assembly.
This clears the stalemate we have had in terms of process,
It is not just a question of a symbolic action with regard to handing in some weapons,
Our view is that the review should be tightly focused on something -- that is, focused on the key issues that have caused the difficulties, primarily on decommissioning and also on the question of devolution,
Recovery would be very simple -- let the prime minister put the information he has in the public domain,
He has got to create confidence ... in Northern Ireland that the law will be observed and will be enforced, and when republicans are found to be behaving in a way that is contrary to their undertakings, that he will act.
had not been seen in the talks before.
Whatever decisions are taken, there is no place for violence and riot and the incidents that we have seen over the last few days,
The people that we really need the answers from are the Republican movement and what they've got to do is they have got to tell us what they are going to do.
Orangemen must realize that if this violence continues, it will only be a matter of time before we once again are following coffins,
squandered the best opportunity that they have had to date in order to resolve this issue.
If there is a real commitment, then getting rid of the weapons could not possibly be a problem,