[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 18900]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         END TO ARMED CAMPAIGN

  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, this morning the IRA has issued a 
statement indicating that it has formally ordered an end to the armed 
campaign. I welcome the statement. Hopefully, the statement means we 
are finally nearing the end of this very long process to take guns and 
criminality out of politics in Northern Ireland once and for all.
  I look forward to the final act of decommissioning and the 
verification that paramilitary activity and criminality have ended. The 
all-important restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly is 
reestablished. Peace and violence cannot coexist in Northern Ireland, 
and all who care about peace and stability look forward to these final 
actions.

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