» Wednesday, October 4, 2006David Cameron’s Speech
Asked if the Prime Minister would be watching David Cameron's speech at the Conservative Party Conference this afternoon, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) replied that the Prime Minister had various meetings this afternoon, but no doubt he would be updated by those on the political side of the House. Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Northern Ireland/ International Monitoring Commission (IMC) Report
Asked what would the Prime Minister be saying about the IMC report, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister would first of all recognise the objective way in which the IMC had gone about its business, and the fact that this was an objective assessment by an independent body. The Prime Minister would also recognise what the report said about the IRA having dismantled its capability in certain key respects: it was no longer engaged in activities such as terrorism, training, recruitment, targeting, and the procurement and engineering of weapons, and that it had stopped community punishments and other such activities as well. Therefore, the Prime Minister would welcome the fact that the IMC's conclusion were that the IRA and Sinn Fein were both living up to their commitments to follow an exclusively political path. The Prime Minister would no doubt find his own form of words to express this, but that would be the basic context of what he would say. Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (48) Original PMOS briefings are © Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Click-use licence number C02W0004089. Material is reproduced from the original 10 Downing Street source, but may not be the most up-to-date version of the briefings, which might be revised at the original source. Users should check with the original source in case of revisions. Comments are © Copyright contributors. Everything else is © Copyright Downing Street Says. |
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