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Sinn Fein’s ‘negotiating skills’ seem to get rusty with time
Sinn Fein’s ‘negotiating skills’ seem to get rusty with time
Irish News, letters page
Carmel Hanna MLA SDLP, South Belfast
03/07/2009
Jim Gibney (June 18) is being self-serving when he writes about ‘Sinn Fein’s proven negotiating skills’ – ‘‘under the SDLP’s Sunningdale the RUC was left intact”.
Provisional Sinn Fein did not negotiate the ending of the RUC.
That came from the Patten Commission which was set up as a result of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA).
The GFA was primarily negotiated by the SDLP on behalf of northern nationalists and is based on SDLP ideas.
Even Ian Paisley acknowledged that.
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