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"Street disturbances should stop. Communities should not have to endure the nightly trauma that they have been going through" - Gerry Adams
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Sinn Féin president Mr Gerry Adams has warned nationalists not to do anything that might play into the hands of anti-Agreement unionists.
Calling for an end to street disturbances, Mr Adams said there was no republican strategy of agitation on the streets of Northern Ireland, despite unionist claims to the contrary.
Mr Adams told the West Belfast Festival programme launch: "There are some unionists who believe there is a republican strategy about creating street agitation, that there is some great plan and there is not.
"It drives nationalists and republicans crazy to believe that someone would think there is a strategy in place which could bring down the Good Friday Agreement.
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"However many unionists believe that is the case. That is the sentiment in unionism which is being wound up by anti-Agreement elements, that is the sentiment that is being used and exploited.
"So what is the import of these remarks?
"The import of these remarks is that despite provocation, despite the difficulties, despite the real threat encountered by nationalist communities on the interface, nobody should do or say anything that plays into the hands of the anti-Agreement agenda.
"Street disturbances should stop. Communities should not have to endure the nightly trauma that they have been going through."
Mr Adams was commenting ahead of talks later this week in Hillsborogh Co Down involving the Taoiseach Mr Ahern, the British prime minister Mr Blair, and pro-Agreement parties. PA