british soldiers from prosecution. i think this is the honorable approach. we are guarantors of the good friday agreement. we believe that the legacy act injures the good friday agreement violates a core part of the good friday agreement, which is the human rights foundations that underpin it. we do it reluctantly because we are conscious of the need, obviously to maintain good relations with the united kingdom. we have great cooperation on a whole range of issues. we have a desired objective in seeing the institutions restored in northern ireland. we re very disappointed that they haven t been restored to date. but nonetheless, i think the good friday agreement is an international treaty that was entered into by the two governments and all of the political parties in northern ireland. and i m very clear that unilateralism is not the way to deal with issues relating to the good friday agreement. there has to be a collective response. let s speak to mark devenport former the