12/06/2002
Haass calls for end to "build up of violence"
The US special envoy to Northern Ireland Richard Haass has met with party leaders at Stormont and called for an end to the ongoing civil unrest during his two-day fact-finding mission to assess the state of the peace process.
Ambassador Haass, the director of policy and planning at the US State Department, spoke of the need for political leadership in the search for a conclusion to the civil unrest, which has particularly affected the Lower Newtownards Road and Short Strand areas of east Belfast.
"Americans have been watching with growing concern on what has happened on the ground in recent days and weeks and obviously we want to see this gradual build up of violence reversed," he said.
Later he met with an Ulster Unionist delegation – consisting of Michael McGimpsey, Fred Cobain, Ivan Davis and James Leslie – who spoke of their concerns following a fortnight of some of the most serious street violence in Belfast since the seventies.
After the meeting, a UUP spokesman said: “The street violence is something which has been causing massive disruption and we once again stressed our views on what is in danger of becoming a huge spiralling problem.”
The Unionist delegation also said that they had raised their concerns over Sinn Féin links to terrorist activity in Colombia and possible IRA involvement in the Castlereagh break-in.
During the first leg of his visit in London on Monday, the US envoy urged republicans to join the Policing Board and give their endorsement to the new policing arrangements. To that end, Mr Haass today backed a call from Policing Board vice chairman Dennis Bradley for Sinn Féin to meet with the newly created Chief Constable, Hugh Orde, saying it would "make sense". Mr Orde said that he would be prepared to meet with the republican leadership.
Mr Haass will also hold further consultations with members of the main parties before he returns to the US.
He will conclude his trip by announcing the two winners of this year's President's Prize which is awarded for efforts to promote reconciliation.
(GMcG)
Ambassador Haass, the director of policy and planning at the US State Department, spoke of the need for political leadership in the search for a conclusion to the civil unrest, which has particularly affected the Lower Newtownards Road and Short Strand areas of east Belfast.
"Americans have been watching with growing concern on what has happened on the ground in recent days and weeks and obviously we want to see this gradual build up of violence reversed," he said.
Later he met with an Ulster Unionist delegation – consisting of Michael McGimpsey, Fred Cobain, Ivan Davis and James Leslie – who spoke of their concerns following a fortnight of some of the most serious street violence in Belfast since the seventies.
After the meeting, a UUP spokesman said: “The street violence is something which has been causing massive disruption and we once again stressed our views on what is in danger of becoming a huge spiralling problem.”
The Unionist delegation also said that they had raised their concerns over Sinn Féin links to terrorist activity in Colombia and possible IRA involvement in the Castlereagh break-in.
During the first leg of his visit in London on Monday, the US envoy urged republicans to join the Policing Board and give their endorsement to the new policing arrangements. To that end, Mr Haass today backed a call from Policing Board vice chairman Dennis Bradley for Sinn Féin to meet with the newly created Chief Constable, Hugh Orde, saying it would "make sense". Mr Orde said that he would be prepared to meet with the republican leadership.
Mr Haass will also hold further consultations with members of the main parties before he returns to the US.
He will conclude his trip by announcing the two winners of this year's President's Prize which is awarded for efforts to promote reconciliation.
(GMcG)
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