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Article: Northern Ireland Peace Accord May Collapse: Blair
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 23, 1999
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that the Northern
Ireland's peace accord could collapse as it is approaching the June
30 deadline for ending a deadlock over decommissioning.
Blair delivered a take-it-or-leave-it warning on Tuesday night to
feuding Northern Ireland politicians, making clear on Northern
Ireland television that he was fed up with a long-running dispute
between Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders over guerrilla
disarmament which has paralyzed the province's peace process.
"If this agreement goes down, then we will have to pick up the
pieces in the best way we can," Blair said, "We have gone on talking
and talking and talking. At some point people have got to make ...