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Article: Britain, United States pledge renewed cooperation in Northern Ireland
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- May 17, 2005
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AP Worldstream
05-17-2005
Dateline: LONDON
Britain and the United States will keep pushing for renewed power-sharing and paramilitary disarmament in Northern Ireland, the province's new governor and the U.S. envoy pledged Tuesday after their first meeting.
The talks in London between Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain and U.S. envoy Mitchell Reiss followed the United Kingdom's May 5 parliamentary elections. In Northern Ireland, voters rewarded the opposite extremes of opinion: the British Protestants of the Democratic Unionists versus the Irish Catholics of Sinn Fein, the IRA-linked party.
Prime Minister Tony Blair appointed Hain to the Northern Ireland post after his Labour Party ...
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