<s docid="FT934-5486" num="14"> MARCH 7: IRA bomb injures 4 policemen in Bangor MARCH 11: British message: In the light of the continued violence of recent days since the first response we are not yet able to send a substantive response.</s>

<s docid="FT934-5486" num="18"> 3. The position of the British government on dealing with those who espouse violence is clearly understood . . . We confirm that if violence had genuinely been brought to an end, whether or not that fact had been announced, then dialogue could take place.</s>

<s docid="FT934-5486" num="19"> 4. Once a halt to activity became public, the government would have to acknowledge and defend its entry into dialogue.</s>

<s docid="FT934-5486" num="59"> JULY 17: British message: There was no ulterior motive in any delay . . . Although it was absolutely clear from the attacks which took place in March that events on the ground could halt progress, these attacks following the May elections went ahead . . . Does the ending of conflict remain your objective, and is there a way forward?</s>

<s docid="FT934-5486" num="72"> OCTOBER 30: Seven murdered by loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters in Greysteel.</s>

<s docid="FT934-5486" num="74"> You appear to have rejected the Hume-Adams situation though they too are part of it . . . Now we can't even have dialogue to work out how a total end to all violence can come about.</s>

<s docid="FT943-5512" num="19"> The leadership of Sinn Fein and the IRA appear to understand that the ability to kill has not brought much progress towards British withdrawal and a united Ireland.</s>

<s docid="FT943-5512" num="50"> Any hope of bringing all parties to round-table talks will stand or fall on the removal of terrorist weaponry and the threat that it could be used again.</s>

<s docid="FT943-5512" num="56"> Only when the matters of weaponry and prisoners have been resolved can the crucial constitutional issues be addressed in wider talks aimed at securing a comprehensive, negotiated political settlement.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-66024" num="23"> The clarification is off the agenda, nobody has anything more to say about that, the next logical step has to be a cessation of violence by both sets of paramilitaries to allow the political dialogue to commence.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-66024" num="30"> Quite clearly the next step and the next question we want answered from Sinn Fein and from the Republican movement and from the Loyalist paramilitaries is a cessation of violence, because it's quite clear from where we are at today that there isn't a single vestige of justification left for either paramilitaries to carry out these sectarian murders that are going on.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-66024" num="62"> Now there will always be and always have been people with different vested interests to stop a peace process, but the two democratically elected governments are not going to be deterred, or be blackmailed or whatever into dropping a peace process in the face of some of this terrorist blackmail that is going on -- we are not going to do it, and the sooner the people realize that and get the message straight to them that the day is over for a cessation of violence, [as heard] the two governments are going to move ahead with or without the paramilitaries.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-64256" num="48"> Last week we had the death of Theresa Clinton, the wife of a Sinn Fein member; there were a number of attacks against Catholics and the homes of Catholics.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-64256" num="53"> She was a woman, it was hard luck that she was married to a Republican, while the RUC man was a responsible, armed voluntary member of the British Armed Forces, and so on.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-64256" num="54"> Yet, I do not think that such qualifications and half-justifications will bring things ahead.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-19797" num="16"> Ceasefire"] [Text] Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring has broken with the Anglo-Irish demand that there can be no peace moves with Sinn Fein until the IRA agrees a permanent cessation of violence. Mr Spring said in an interview that the Dublin Government would want to build on a temporary IRA ceasefire to help Sinn Fein "inch away from violence".</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-38740" num="52"> Nor will a temporary truce do: The government will not negotiate with Adams or anyone else unless and until they have permanently ended violence or permanently ended the justification for violence.</s>

<s docid="FT934-11680" num="16"> Their communique attacked the 'murderous and premeditated acts which could serve no end other than to deepen the bloodshed in Northern Ireland'.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-44373" num="19"> The Downing Street Declaration of 15 December 1993 was intended and expected to lead to a cessation of IRA violence.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-44373" num="20"> But six months later, IRA violence continues much as before.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-44373" num="23"> The "peace process," which is supposed to quench the flames, is pouring petrol on them.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-42699" num="60"> That may yet happen, but I fear that the growing violence will be allowed to get worse before the governments see through the peace process.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-39733" num="18"> The new IRA attacks -- including the first murder this year -- were being seen as a thumbs-down for the talks process.</s>

<s docid="FT934-11487" num="15"> Their communique attacked the 'murderous and premeditated acts which could serve no end other than to deepen the bloodshed in Northern Ireland'.</s>

