Although it is too soon to say that all is well in Northern Ireland, this a welcome development and the culmination of more than twenty-five years of debate within Irish Republican circles over the efficacy of pursuing their goals through the political process.  Northern Ireland may no longer be the focus of Anglo-American relations the way it was in the 1990's but it is my hope that we will continue to support British and Irish efforts to bring all groups into a workable political framework.

Read the statement.