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Article: DUP deny secret 'channel' to Sinn Fein

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March 18, 2008
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Tony Blair's former chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, claimed the DUP set up contacts with Sinn Fein after it became the largest unionist party following the Assembly elections of November 2003.

In the latest extract from his memoirs, published today, Mr Powell added: "The channel was kept secret because the DUP refused to meet Sinn Fein at the time on the grounds that the IRA was still active."

Without the back channel building confidence over time, the "extraordinary" meeting between Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams last March "would have been difficult," Mr Powell told the Guardian newpaper.

But DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson said today: "There was no back channel to Sinn Fein at all, not at ...

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