LA DIATRIBA SULLE PARATE ORANGISTE DEVE ESSERE RISOLTA PRIMA DELLA DEVOLUTION
Monito di Peter Robinson alla House of Commons
Non ci potrà essere il trasferimento di poteri prima che venga risolta la questione delle parate orangiste. Questo parrebbe essere il pensiero di Peter Robinson che ieri sera si è rivolto alla House of Commons.
“Laciare questi problemi irrisolti e delegare i poteri di polizia e di giustizia sarebbe come piantare un seme nel cuore del governo dell’Irlanda del Nord che, credo, avrebbe effetti corrosivi e di divisione e che in ultima analisi, potrebbe in realtà essere la goccia che fa traboccare il vaso “, ha affermato il primo ministro nordirlandese che ha inoltre chiesto l’abolizione della Parades Commission perchè non è “una soluzione ai problemi, ma parte del problema stesso”.
Il Ministro della Sicurezza Paul Goggins ha aggiunto che “Le difficoltà che circondano le parate potranno solo e soltanto essere risolte quando vi sarà un impegno a livello politico e locale, quando vi sarà la comprensione e il rispetto delle diverse opinioni, e quando ci allontaneremo dal pensare in termini di vincitori o vinti.”
Eddie McGrady, portavoce del SDLP, lodando il lavoro della Parades Commission si è calato nei panni della comunità che a suo parere gradirebbe si interebbe procedere a risolvere i problemi in termini non di miglioramento, e non in termini di moneta di scambio per il trasferimento di poteri di polizia e giustizia al governo di Stormont.
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‘Parades must be resolved before justice devolved’ (Belfast Telegraph)
First Minister Peter Robinson last night told MPs of the “political imperative” to resolve issues of parading in the province before policing and justice powers are devolved.
The DUP leader said that “community confidence” was a necessary requirement for the transfer of such powers.
Last week the Prime Minister unveiled a plan of almost £1 billion to devolve policing and justice powers to the Assembly, promising further aid if paramilitary violence erupts.
Gordon Brown has held lengthy talks with Mr Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness on a deal to see unionists and republicans share responsibility for Northern Ireland’s justice system.
But last night Mr Robinson warned that issues of parading needed to be resolved before this could take place.
In a DUP-led debate in the Commons, he said: “To leave these issues unresolved and to devolve powers of policing and justice would plant a seed at the heart of government in Northern Ireland which I believe would be corrosive and divisive and which ultimately could in fact be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”
The First Minister also called for abolition of the Parades Commission. Mr Robinson said the commission was “not a solution to problems but part of the problem itself”.
Northern Ireland Minister Paul Goggins said the debate demonstrated there were issues that remained to be resolved.
He told MPs: “Difficulties surrounding parading can only and will only be resolved when there is engagement at political and local level, when there is understanding of and respect of different opinions and when we move away from thinking in terms of winners or losers.”
SDLP spokesman Eddie McGrady said the Parades Commission had done some good work, pointing to the fact that this summer’s marching season had seen little violence.
“If we are going to fix this thing that is failing,” he said, “all communities want to know how you are going to do it as a betterment, not simply at the behest of one party’s demand or justification for the devolution of policing and justice.”
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