Peace Process

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland – in the House of Commons am 1:39 pm ar 24 Mawrth 1999.

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Photo of Andrew MacKay Andrew MacKay Ceidwadwyr, Bracknell 1:39, 24 Mawrth 1999

I do not wish the Secretary of State to cherry-pick parts of the Belfast agreement. She will be aware, as the House is aware, that, under the agreement, decommissioning must be completed by next May and she must release all terrorist prisoners by next July. At that time, three months will have passed since the date when all decommissioning should have taken place. I am asking the right hon. Lady a simple, straightforward question, to which Mrs. Restorick and everybody else would like an answer: will she promise me and the House that if there is not complete decommissioning by the IRA of illegally held arms and explosives by the due date in May, those evil murderers will not be released back on to the streets in July?