UDA pledges cease-fire in Northern Ireland
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BELFAST -- Northern Ireland's largest and most violent outlawed group, the Ulster Defense Association, said yesterday it will desist from further attacks and wants to rejoin peacemaking efforts.
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The government yesterday recognised the ceasefire of Northern Ireland&#39;s largest loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association, in an attempt to boost the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Warning that he would not be &quot;bluffed,&quot; Protestant leader Ian Paisley said Saturday the latest attempt to achieve peace in Northern Ireland was doomed unless the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) took immediate and verifiable steps to disarm.
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LEEDS CASTLE, ENGLAND - The Irish Republican Army would have to definitively renounce violence and the Democratic Unionists would have to agree to a joint administration if either side hopes to revive a peace deal in Northern Ireland.
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Gerry Adams, leader of the Irish Republican Army&#39;s (IRA) political ally Sinn Fein, signaled on Sunday that the guerrilla group was ready to give up its arms, but only if a new Northern Ireland peace deal can be struck.
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Northern Ireland has taken another small step in the slow march towards restoring home rule this weekend with tacit promises from the IRA to end militant activity once and for all.
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Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern were today urged to secure a clear commitment from the IRA that it will end all paramilitary activity in talks to revive power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s largest and most violent outlawed group, the Ulster Defense Association, announced Sunday it will desist from further attacks and wants to rejoin peacemaking efforts.
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The British and Irish prime ministers unveiled a sweeping new Northern Ireland peace plan Wednesday that offered solutions to issues &#151; particularly Irish Republican Army disarmament &#151; that have bedeviled negotiations for a decade.
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Northern Ireland's largest Protestant  guerrilla group promised on Sunday to join the peace process in  the British-ruled province by ending violence, but said it  would disarm only when its republican foes did so too.
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Former Northern Ireland first minister David Trimble said there should be no return to local self-rule until the Irish Republican Army ( news - web sites ) (IRA) had completely disarmed and halted all ...
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Ulster Defence Association leaders from across NI gather to present a united front against criminality.
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BELFAST/LONDON  - Anglo-Irish attempts to seal a  lasting political settlement in Northern Ireland hinged Tuesday  on whether IRA guerrillas would allow pictures to be taken of  their weapons being destroyed.
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The loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association yesterday delivered a huge boost to the Northern Ireland peace process by pledging to end all violence and to work towards complete disarmament.
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The Irish Republican Army declared yesterday that it is willing to get rid of all its weapons this month - but only if Protestants drop their demands for photographic proof.
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The United Nations has called on all factions involved in several days of fighting in eastern Congo to agree to a cease-fire. Clashes continued Monday as the United Nations ordered the government
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Northern Ireland's peace process requires the Irish Republican Army to renounce crime as well as disarm, the governments of Britain and Ireland stressed Thursday after the outlawed group announced it will not scrap weapons &#151; and does not commit crimes.