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Article: Sinn Fein signals it could withdraw from Northern Ireland legislature
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- June 24, 2006
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SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-24-2006
Dateline: BELFAST, Northern Ireland
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams warned on Saturday that his Catholic-backed party could withdraw from Northern Ireland's legislature, which is supposed to elect a Catholic-Protestant administration for this British territory, unless Britain and Ireland issue an ultimatum soon to Protestant leaders.
"We are more than willing to be involved in any genuine effort to restore the political institutions but we will not participate in a farce that is driving the political process into deeper crisis and making the public increasingly cynical," Adams said after a meeting of the executive board of his ...