UUP calls for clarity from DUP on Comprehensive Agreement as DUP Deputy Leader at odds with his Party Leader
Senior Ulster Unionist Dermot Nesbitt today called for clarity from the DUP over the Comprehensive Agreement as Deputy Leader Peter Robinson stated in the Assembly that he did not agree with many parts of it.
This is against Ian Paisley’s stated position at the time that it had all been agreed apart from the modalities of decommissioning.
In a statement Mr Nesbitt said,
“I questioned Mr Robinson in the Assembly and in a surprise admission he stated there are many parts of the Comprehensive Agreement that the DUP did not agree with. This is at odds with the party’s previous position as articulated by Ian Paisley who emerged from Downing Street in December 2004 announcing that all had been agreed bar the modalities of decommissioning.
This is yet another shift on the part of the DUP. I am calling for a definitive statement from the DUP on the Comprehensive Agreement and what elements of it they disagree with. The public have a right to know what is being negotiated on their behalf. Peter Robinson had an opportunity to respond in the Assembly and did not clarify the position.”