The United States on Saturday called on Northern Irish officials to share power as envisioned in the 1998 peace accord, after the nationalist Sinn Fein party won a historic victory over the decades-ruling Unionists.
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“We call on the leaders of Northern Ireland to take the necessary steps to reinstate shared government (between unionists and nationalists), which is one of the main clauses of the Good Friday Agreementfrom 1998, US Foreign Ministry spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
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