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MOST CRUCIAL PHASE BEGINS
01/11/98 21:10 EST

THE Stormont talks on the future of Northern Ireland will
enter what is perhaps their most crucial phase so far when
they resume tomorrow morning. The cycle of renewed
loyalist violence since the murder of Billy Wright will put
added pressure on the delegates to make some kind of
breakthrough. Reports that Mo Mowlam has secured just six
week's grace from loyalist paramilitaries inside the Maze
prison will also focus efforts on breaking the current
impasse.

But the weekend reaction to proposals for an elected
assembly in the north coupled with a Council of the Isles
body has only served to underline the vast gulf between
the parties that has to be bridged before an agreement can
be reached. Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble warned
yesterday that the talks would not last until the May
deadline unless some parties were prepared to "grasp the
nettle".

SDLP spokesman Conal McDevitt said the party's objective was
to negotiate an agreement which would then face a referendum
on both sides of the border. "The SDLP is pursuing an agenda
which seeks to build an equality on all levels within the
north of Ireland," he said. "This would include fundamental
changes in policing, the establishment of a bill of rights
in the context of an overall settlement and proposals for
educational, social, cultural and economic equality. The
SDLP believes any settlement will be shaped around three key
sets of relationships. Those between the people of the north
of Ireland, the relationships between the people of Ireland,
north and south, and relationships between Britain and
Ireland."

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, writing in 'Ireland on
Sunday' yesterday, outlined how he felt the talks process
should be accelerated by the Dublin and London governments.
He laid the blame for the delay in the talks at the feet of
the Ulster Unionists and the two fringe loyalist parties.
"The progress in the talks at Stormont has been painfully
slow," he said. "This hard won opportunity for peace cannot
be lost as a result of the actions of those who are opposed
to change, to real negotiations and to the search for
peace."

Mr Adams called for a leadership summit between Irish premier
Bertie Ahern and Prime Minister Tony Blair and the drawing
up of lead papers which would "address all of the main areas
for negotiations". He also said a broad agenda should be put
together, as well as a comprehensive list of all issues
which were to be discussed. "There needs to be a serious and
determined effort on the part of the two governments and the
independent chairs to kick start the negotiations," he
added.

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