The Belfast Agreement can only be made to work if everyone accepts its "full principles" including an end to violence, the British Prime Minister said today.
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Mr Blair acknowledged the latest crisis was "a very serious situation" but said he remained "absolutely determined" to find a way through the deadlock. He was speaking at Downing Street before meeting UUP leader Mr David Trimble.
Mr Blair said: "This is a very serious situation, there's no doubting it at all and the tragedy is I believe that the vast majority of people recognise that the Belfast Agreement, the peace process, offers the best chance of a sensible future if it can be made to work.
"But it can only be made to work on the basis that everyone accepts the full principles of that agreement and that is equality of justice on the one side and an end to any form of violence and terrorism on the other," he said.
Mr Blair said he was determined to make sure there is a way through it [the crisis] so that the people of Northern Ireland are given the future they need.
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