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The UUP delegation raised concerns about the phrasing of the timing of decommissioning in the summer of 1999.
The UUP delegation raised concerns about the phrasing of the timing of decommissioning in the summer of 1999.
Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams privately warned Irish officials during a 2001 visit to Washington that the Northern Ireland peace process could take three decades.
At the time, efforts were ongoing to get the IRA and other groups to decommission their weapons.
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Department of Foreign Affairs official told his British counterpart that as far as he was aware the prime minister and the royal family had ‘received nothing but praise for their gestures of sympathy’