AP/RN 4.15.99 - Adams challenges governments Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit An Phoblacht/Republican News - Thursday 15 April 1999 ---------------------------------- Adams challenges governments Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has challenged the British and Irish governments to publicly state if they have abandoned the Good Friday Agreement. Speaking from Parliament buildings at Stormont on Wednesday afternoon, Adams called for a ``clear and unambiguous'' statement from the two governments. He said: ``Sinn Fein is challenging the British and Irish governments to publicly state whether they have abandoned the Good Friday Agreement in favour of the Hillsborough Declaration.'' Adams said the Declaration, while it might have been the ``best guess'' of the two governments, was simply ``not good enough''. With a growing number of parties rejecting the Declaration and the Women's Coalition complaining that they were ``conned'', the Sinn Fein President said: ``It is now widely acknowledged that the Hillsborough Declaration is a move away from the Good Friday Agreement.'' Adams added: ``It is clear that the two governments, under pressure from David Trimble, have moved from the common ground of the Good Friday Agreement, shared by all the pro-agreement parties last April, to the much narrower ground occupied by the Ulster Unionist Party.'' ``Whilst this may have been an attempt to break the logjam created by the unionist tactical approach, the reality is that the two governments are in breach of their obligations under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement because they have failed to establish the institutions - one year on.'' Adams concluded: ``Almost 2 million people voted in 1998 for the Good Friday Agreement. They are entitled to know the government's intentions." ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-04.25.99-13:00:25-22347