Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams
Gerard Adamsis an Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party, and a Teachta Dálafor Louth since the 2011 general election...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 October 1948
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
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Having been in America as recently as November, there will be some people clearly who support the peace process, who support Sinn Fein, who support the Irish cause, who will not agree with me going to Cuba, but I think they will accept and understand it.
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make it very very clear there is no way forward except the Good Friday agreement.
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
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There is still not peace. The agreement is not a settlement. There are good things in it, there are bad things in it that people will have to get their heads around,
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It means that Unionists who are for the Good Friday Agreement must end their ambivalence, ... And it is a direct challenge to the DUP to decide if they want to put the past behind them and make peace with the rest of the people of this island.
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The demand that has been made on me is that the IRA has to decommission its weapons before the agreement carries on, and that is a demand I cannot deliver on,
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I think it is important that when a commission established under an agreement which has its remit in legislation (in both the Irish and UK governments) that when the head of that commission witnesses an event in which IRA weapons were put beyond use in accordance with this agreement...that it is up to the governments to validate it and uphold it.
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The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
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We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.
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The full implementation of the Good Friday agreement holds out vast hope of securing an end to injustice and the inequalities and conflict which have troubled Ireland and our people for generations.
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an approach to the Agreement that subverts and ultimately brings about its collapse.
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We in Sinn Fein have many good friends in the USA, with this president (George W. Bush) and former president Bill Clinton,
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The RUC have been tolerating road and street blocks being set up. There have been Catholics evicted from their homes by mobs. All of this raises the temperature.