IrishCentral.com reported on the Ad Hoc Committee’s meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis in Washington DC. An excerpt:
The Ad Hoc Committee to Protect the Good Friday Agreement’s meeting was reportedly “cordial and candid”. It focused on the Northern Ireland Protocol along with the United Kingdom’s proposed amnesty, with relations to legacy court cases surrounding The Troubles.
Former US Congressman Bruce Morrison, Co-chair of the committee, told RTE that members stressed that outstanding issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol should be resolved between the UK and EU. He added that the focus should be on the practicalities of implementing the measures.
Morrison told RTE “On the legacy issue, we suggested that the UK needs to rethink its amnesty proposal given the lack of support among stakeholders in Northern Ireland.”
They wrote, “We find this proposal to be at odds with both the spirit and architecture of the Good Friday Agreement.”
The proposed amnesty would see the British government create a statute of limitations to end prosecutions for incidents up to April 1998. This would apply to military veterans and ex-paramilitaries.
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