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DUP respinge il documento di Sinn Fein su integrazione

DUP rejects SF integration paper

The DUP has said a Sinn Fein paper on community relations is “not a basis for building trust or confidence”.

Jeffrey DonaldsonOn Wednesday, Sinn Fein released their document after the DUP had accused them of holding up the Executive strategy on Cohesion, Sharing and Integration.

DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson said a shared future was not “created by imposing their template rather than a template based on a broad consensus”.

Sinn Fein said they are not to blame for delaying the Executive strategy.

Mr Donaldson has made public a 2008 draft of the Cohesion, Sharing and Integration strategy produced by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM).

He said it demonstrated “key differences” with the Sinn Fein paper.

‘Justifiable concern’

Martina Anderson“The policy document which Sinn Fein has launched has been approved and cleared by nobody but Sinn Fein,” he said.

“Whereas the document which I am making available for public consumption has been formulated through intensive discussions over a substantial period of time not only inside OFMDFM but also, amongst the Community Relations Council, the Equality Commission and representatives of the ethnic minority community.”

Martina Anderson, Sinn Fein spokesperson on equality, launched the party’s 43-page document after First Minister Peter Robinson blamed Sinn Fein for a long delay in publishing the community relations strategy.

Ms Anderson said there was “justifiable concern” about the delay and that political recrimination was wrong. She called for “mature political leadership” from all parties.

She added that her party was committed to an approach based on equality before adding: “Unfortunately this has not always been forthcoming from all parties.”

She insisted the substance of the paper reflected the party’s approach in engagements with the DUP and was “a genuine effort to agree an appropriate cross-party Executive strategy”.

The Executive’s failure to produce a community relations strategy was criticised by the former chief constable Sir Hugh Orde in an interview he gave just before he left his job.

He told The Guardian: “It’s hugely disappointing the shared future strategy is not right at the top of the public agenda. It hardly seems to be on the agenda at all.”
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