SDLP leader urges reaffirmation of Agreement principles

Unionists and nationalists should reaffirm their commitment to the principles of the Good Friday Agreement in any debate on the constitutional future of Northern Ireland, SDLP leader Mark Durkan said today.

Responding to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams’s argument that unionists should begin discussing with nationalists what type of united Ireland they could live in, the Stormont Deputy First Minister said in New York it would be wrong to think the end of the Union could be negotiated outside the Agreement.