“Positive”: this is how Lord Eames, primate of the Anglican “Church of England”, the second most important Protestant Church in Northern Ireland after the Presbyterian Church, defined yesterday’s meeting in Belfast with Gerry Adams, president of the “Sinn Fein”, the political party of the IRA. Eames, who spoke with Adams one and a half hours, highlighted the need of “a full involvement in the democratic institutions with the support given to police”. The support of the “Sinn Fein” to the Northern Irish police is actually the key of the peace process, revived two weeks ago by a working plan of the Irish and British governments, which is supposed to lead to the comeback of an independent Parliament in Belfast by March 26th. The Sinn Fein would like justice to be entrusted to Parliament, while the Protestants of the “Democratic Unionist Party” want the “Sinn Fein” to support the Northern Irish police. The two parties refuse to meet for the moment, and this is why the meetings between Adams and Lord Eames and between the Protestant leader Ian Paisley and cardinal Brady two weeks ago are so important. Adams defined sectarianism “one of the plagues of our society. A community of faith should feel safe and see its rights guaranteed”.
