BELFAST (Reuters) - The United States called on the Irish Republican Army on Wednesday to lay down its arms sooner rather than later so Northern Ireland can find permanent peace.
"I would very much hope that the IRA would respond soon," said Mitchell Reiss,
President Bush's special envoy, as Washington joined forces with London and Dublin to try to get home rule returned to Protestants and Catholics in the province.
Last month Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams, leader of the IRA's political ally, appealed to the paramilitaries to use words, not guns to fulfil their aim of ending British rule in Northern Ireland.
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