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PRIMATE APPEALS FOR PERIOD OF CALM
The Church of Ireland Primate, Archbishop Robin Eames, today called for a period of calm in which efforts to reach solutions to the violence on our streets can be encouraged.
Archbishop Eames said: “After months of violence and tension between communities in Belfast and across the Province I appeal for a period of calm in which progress could be made through contact and dialogue to bring an end to a situation of the greatest danger. If the current level of inter-community trouble continues lives will be lost. Blame and counter-blame will achieve nothing. It is surely in the interests of all our communities that as winter approaches we draw back to create a situation in which commonsense replaces anger.
“I appeal to all who have influence in both Loyalist and Nationalist areas to use that influence now to allow a period in which violence gives way to genuine attempts to reach agreement in the hope that we can stop the mayhem on our streets.
“It is my earnest prayer that such a period would allow people of goodwill in both communities to find ways in which all our people could live as neighbours rather than suffer as enemies.”
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