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Article: Clinton to visit Northern Ireland to push peace process.
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- United Press International
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- November 28, 2000
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI)
The White House announced Monday that President Clinton will travel to Northern Ireland in December in part to check in on the troubled peace process there.
Clinton spokesman Jake Siewert told reporters that there is no detailed agenda yet for the president's trip -- which will also include visits to the Republic of Ireland and to Great Britain -- but that it will be focused on the implementation of the Good Friday peace accords that Clinton helped negotiate in 1998.
But Irish Embassy spokesman Pat Kelly said Monday that it is unlikely Clinton would immerse himself in any substantive way in on-going negotiations during ...