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The following statement has been issued today, Tuesday 23 November, 1999, by the Church and Government Committee of the Presbyterian Church.
'Review of the Good Friday Agreement.'
Believing that we have a responsibility to do everything possible on our part to live at peace with everybody (Romans 12.18) and having in the past encouraged political leaders to seek a political accommodation with one another so that we might create a society:
where we would treat each other with grace and generosity where people from different backgrounds would feel at home where we would seek to provide each other with a sense of belonging where no-one need feel like a stranger where responsibilities and opportunities are shared where both an Executive would be formed and decommissioning would take place and since the General Assembly in June 1999 encouraged
'both governments, all political parties and paramilitary groups associated with any of them to implement both the letter and spirit of the Good Friday Agreement' the Church and Government Committee welcomes the progress made in the Review of the Good Friday Agreement and the opportunity which now exists to move into the future together.
Award of the George Cross to the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
The Church and Government Committee warmly congratulates the Royal Ulster Constabulary on the award of the George Cross honouring the courage and dedication of police officers and their families in Northern Ireland.
John Dunlop George McCullagh
Co-conveners, Church and Government Committee
Issued by Stephen Lynas, Presbyterian Information Services. Info@PresbyterianIreland.org
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