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The various contingencies. our style and tone that we ll be delivering around this policing operation will remain a community focused style of policing. presidential visits of the past have held great significance for northern ireland s peace process. you must say to those who still would use violence for political objectives, you are the past. in 1995, not long after a ceasefire had been declared by the republican armed paramilitaries, the ira, bill clinton crossed belfast s peace line to visit the divided republican and loyalist communities, and on belfast s falls road came a historic moment. the first public handshake between a us president . and the leader of what many still believe to be the political wing of the ira. bill clinton s visit helped pave the way for sinn fein tojoin peace talks. there was some political pressure, wasn t there, for him not to come here? what did that handshake achieve for you? well, it was a very clear symbolic indication to this community, which h ....

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