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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I see no reason whatsoever why there should be British troops in any part of my country, and particularly in the almost eighth year of two IRA decisions, why people should have more contact with British troops than they had previously,
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Sinn Fein's position on policing is very clear-cut -- when the British government delivers on the commitments it has made, I will deliver on the commitments I have made.
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We have to be prepared, ... to reach out the hand of friendship to the British and the Unionists on the basis of equality.
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In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
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There is a need to get the British government, in particular, to renovate the assembly, which is part of the 'Good Friday' agreement, and which has never met since the elections two years ago.
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If Bill Clinton was the British prime minister, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in,
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The historically important opportunity presented by the IRA cessation of almost two years ago has been frittered away on the back of British policy, ... All of that could have been avoided, and that is a lesson that has to be learned if we're to put this together again.
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Everyone needs time to absorb this and particularly unionists need time to absorb this and they need some space,
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This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,
grasp opportunity parties statement
The two governments, the UUP and other parties should grasp the new opportunity that this unprecedented statement from the IICD creates.
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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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There is no justification for what happened this afternoon in Dublin. Sinn Fein had appealed to people to ignore this loyalist parade and not to be provoked by it. Our view was that it should not be opposed in any way and we made that clear.
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There is no such thing as the Unionists ever having it on their own terms again, because whatever is worked out here has to be on the basis that it is acceptable to all sections of our people.
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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,