A review suggests its three million members have no idea about how its decisions are reached. I can’t deliver that.”Mark Durkan, the nationalist SDLP leader, said the British and Irish governments were right to demand further clarity from the IRA, saying: “The credibility of the process can afford no more ambiguity on such fundamental issues.”Mr Blair will have to decide soon whether to press ahead with elections to the Belfast Assembly scheduled for 29 May.. that that means the complete and final closure of the conflict?”Mr Trimble warned the IRA that time was running out for clarity, declaring: “It is now crunch time for republicans This time they have got to bite the bullet. Tony Blair went head to head in public with the IRA yesterday by challenging its assertions that it had clearly and unambiguously committed itself to a peaceful future.

Lost for words and for want of something better to say I said, ‘I didn’t realise you were so big’.”. Mr Adams wryly recalled those days: “My best discussions with the Unionists were in the men’s room, where they were a captive audience and it was possible to engage in some conversation, sometimes one-sided.”Dermot Nesbitt, a former Ulster Unionist minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly, confirmed this: “I was standing in the toilet relieving myself when suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and realised it was Gerry Adams who was enquiring about my well-being. This relationship remains more problematical: Mr Trimble has, for example, never publicly shaken hands with the Sinn Fein leader.Mr Trimble and his party never spoke directly to Sinn Fein during the intricate negotiations leading up to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, so that the accord was put together via the two governments. He and the Dublin official were then handed an IRA statement that London and Dublin have subsequently said lacks clarity.The division of labour seems to be that while the Northern Ireland Office handles the details of political negotiations, Mr Blair and Mr Powell handle the bigger picture.Since becoming prime minister, Mr Blair has taken the view that discussions should happen on a routine basis.The negotiations leading up to this point have closely involved the Ulster Unionist Party, with a series of contacts between David Trimble and Mr Adams. The general assumption, however, is that when it is only Mr Blair and Mr Powell the conversation is much more open.A similar situation holds with the Irish government, where franker talk is said to go on involving two men, Mr Ahern and a senior official in the Irish Justice Department.The present impasse dates back to the moment earlier this month when Mr Powell flew to Northern Ireland.

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