SF slams Trimble’s talks with Colombian VP

Sinn Féin has hit out at the North’s First Minister for meeting the Colombian Vice-President today to discuss allegations that the IRA provided training to rebels in the South American country.

Party spokesman Gerry Kelly said David Trimble used the meeting on the fringes of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg to advance the views of the Ulster Unionist Party when he should have been acting in his capacity as First Minister.