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26/08/2015
UUP Intends To Withdraw From NI Executive - Nesbitt
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has been recommended to withdraw from the NI Executive over recent claims that the Provisional IRA still exists.
UUP Leader Mike Nesbitt said Sinn Féin has "no credibility" and the UUP has "no trust" in the party.
Unionists had threatened to exclude Sinn Féin after the police said the PIRA still exists and linked its members to the murder of Kevin McGuigan in east Belfast earlier this month.
Mr Nesbitt said: "I have just chaired a meeting of our MLA Group, also attended by our MEP, our MPs, senior officers of our Councillors’ Association and our Party Chairman representing our Party Officers.
"I gave them my analysis of where we are.
"I gave them my recommendation, which they accepted unanimously.
The next step is to call a Meeting of our own Executive, to ask them to endorse our collective decision.
"That decision is to withdraw from the Northern Ireland Executive, to form an Opposition and offer people an alternative, as is the way in any proper democracy.
"We are in a bad place, but this can be fixed.
"But the IRA need to go away and stop terrorising their own communities.
"So do the UDA, and UVF and Red Hand Commando – and the rest.
"And I wouldn't argue if they took down their paramilitary flags on the way out."
(CD)
UUP Leader Mike Nesbitt said Sinn Féin has "no credibility" and the UUP has "no trust" in the party.
Unionists had threatened to exclude Sinn Féin after the police said the PIRA still exists and linked its members to the murder of Kevin McGuigan in east Belfast earlier this month.
Mr Nesbitt said: "I have just chaired a meeting of our MLA Group, also attended by our MEP, our MPs, senior officers of our Councillors’ Association and our Party Chairman representing our Party Officers.
"I gave them my analysis of where we are.
"I gave them my recommendation, which they accepted unanimously.
The next step is to call a Meeting of our own Executive, to ask them to endorse our collective decision.
"That decision is to withdraw from the Northern Ireland Executive, to form an Opposition and offer people an alternative, as is the way in any proper democracy.
"We are in a bad place, but this can be fixed.
"But the IRA need to go away and stop terrorising their own communities.
"So do the UDA, and UVF and Red Hand Commando – and the rest.
"And I wouldn't argue if they took down their paramilitary flags on the way out."
(CD)
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