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Article: U.S. official `agrees to disagree' with Sinn Fein at end of Northern Ireland mission
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- January 17, 2002
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Dateline: BELFAST, Northern Ireland
The lead U.S. official keeping tabs on Northern Ireland's peace process
ended a three-day visit Thursday with a cordial disagreement with
Sinn Fein.
Richard Haass, director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department,
said he told the Irish Republican Army-linked party it should end
its boycott of a civilian board that is overseeing reform of Northern
Ireland's predominantly Protestant police force.
But Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said the U.S. administration was
wrong to accept the police reform plans. He called Haass' comments
"ill timed" but "unsurprising."
"I thought, perhaps as an American, the ...