IRISH FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER ADDRESSES UN
	  id KAA24002; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:11:52 -0400


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IRISH FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER ADDRESSES UN
09/26/97 11:40 EST

Irish Foreign Affairs Minister, Ray Burke told the United 
Nations in New York yesterday of his hopes that the 
"bitterness of history" could be forgotten as a new peace 
was forged in Northern Ireland. He addressed the Assembly as 
news of a breakthrough in the talks process emerged, which 
means that next week unionists and nationalists will face
each other across the table to negotiate for the first time.


He said the talks should deal effectively with "the root 
causes of the threat to peace". He said the present 
developments were important because "they were undertaken in 
partnership between the Irish and British governments".
The sense of change in both Ireland and Britain would 
"impart an urgency and focus to the deliberations. More 
importantly, it means that those who form part of that talks 
process have the opportunity to shape their future rather 
than surrender through indifference or apathy to the 
inexorability of change."
 
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