Obama 支援するs peace in Northern Ireland as Gerry Adams says アイルランド共和国軍 殺人，大当りs 'should not be 誇張するd'

By Niall Firth for MailOnline
Updated: 19:12 BST, 17 March 2009

Barack Obama today 賞賛するd the people of Northern Ireland for 答える／応じるing 'heroically' to 最近の 殺人s at home as he met the 州's political leaders.

The 大統領 held 会談 with Northern Ireland's first and 副 first 大臣s Peter Robinson and former アイルランド共和国軍 man ツバメ McGuinness at the White House.

And, on St Patrick's Day, he 支援するd the Northern Ireland peace 過程 and called America's 社債 with Ireland 'one of the strongest in the world'.

Last week, two British 兵士s and a policeman were killed in 狙撃s which brought the spectre of sectarian 暴力／激しさ 支援する to Northern Ireland.

His words （機の）カム after Gerry Adams 新たにするd his attack on the use of British Special 軍隊s in Northern Ireland に引き続いて the three 残虐な 殺人s in the 州 last week.

Barack Obama (left) with First 大臣 Peter Robinson and 副 First 大臣 ツバメ McGuinness (権利) in the White House, Washington DC

大きくする ?

Barack Obama receives shamrocks, Ireland's 国家の emblem, from the Irish 首相 Brian Cowen during the St Patrick's Day 祝賀s

Mr McGuinness and Mr Robinson discussed the 経済的な 下降 and political 開発s in Northern Ireland with the U.S 大統領.

Mr Robinson said: 'There is a new 行政 in Washington and they have brought with them a sense of dynamism, vibrancy and 緊急. America is changing and so is Northern Ireland.'

Mr McGuinness said they had a unique 共同 with the US.

'There are many things that separate our two cultures but 最終的に and most importantly we are 部隊d by a ありふれた 始める，決める of beliefs,' he said.

Earlier the 大臣s 演説（する）／住所d 商売／仕事 and political leaders at the St Patrick's Day Northern Ireland Bureau breakfast before 会合 国務長官 Hillary Clinton.

Mr Obama met Mr Cowen in the Oval Office as part of a day 十分な of events to 示す the holiday, and said that he hoped to visit Ireland.

Sinn Fein 大統領，／社長 Gerry Adams also held 会談 with Hillary Clinton, the American 国務長官, about the 現在の 状況／情勢.

U.S. 国務長官 Hillary Clinton and Sinn Fein 大統領 Gerry Adams speak to the マスコミ at the 明言する／公表する Department in Washington

Speaking in Washington earlier today, Mr Adams （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that it was the use of British 軍隊／機動隊s to 跡をつける 負かす／撃墜する the 反体制者 アイルランド共和国軍 殺害者s that 'could 土台を崩す the peace 過程'.

But in words 確かな to 怒り／怒る those 嘆く／悼むing last week's 殺人，大当りs, Mr Adams （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that: 'It's important that we don't minimise what occurred, but we don't 誇張する what occurred.'

His comments come in the wake of 普及した 批評 after he made a rather calculated 返答 to the 兵士s' 殺人s 14 hours after the attacks occurred.

Mr Adams 追加するd that the use of Special 軍隊s would be 'a return to the bad practices of the past'.

The Sinn Fein leader was visiting the U.S for St Patrick's Day 祝賀s where he called the 最近の attacks 'a 十分な frontal 強襲，強姦 on the peace?過程'.

Sappers 示す Quinsey and Pat Azimkar and PC Stephen Carroll were all 殺人d by アイルランド共和国軍 反体制者s last week

Adams said that the 広大な 大多数 of the people in Northern Ireland 拒絶する 最近の 暴力／激しさ and support the peace 過程.

He said that the 後援 groups were a 'very, very small group of people' who 欠如（する）d popular support.

'Everyone has a 責任／義務 to defend the peace,' he said. 'There can be no going 支援する, there is no turning 支援する. The only way to go is 今後'

Last week, Mr Adams said that police 長，指導者 Sir Hugh Orde had made a 'mistake' in bringing in specialist British 軍隊／機動隊s to を取り引きする the growing 脅し of 反体制者 共和国の／共和党の テロリストs.

Barack Obama, wearing a green tie for St Patrick's Day, is …を伴ってd by 国務長官 Hillary Rodham Clinton to 会合，会う with Irish 総理大臣 Brian Cowen

長官 of 明言する／公表する Hillary Clinton and 副大統領 Joe Biden are also on the schedule at the end of a trip 延期するd by political 暴力／激しさ.

In Ireland, a St Patrick's Day parade planned for Lurgan, の近くに to where Pc Stephen Carroll was 発射, has been cancelled まっただ中に the continuing 緊張s.

First 大臣 Peter Robinson and his 副 ツバメ McGuinness have been 支持するing Northern Ireland 商売／仕事 適切な時期s.

They met 産業 長，指導者s and 決定／判定勝ち（する） 製造者s in Chicago, California, New York and Washington DC after an 沸き立つ in 反体制者 共和国の／共和党の 暴力／激しさ and まっただ中に an 経済的な 低迷.

The fountain in 前線 of the White House in Washington flows with green water in honour of St Patrick

Today, the 大臣s will host a breakfast at the Northern Ireland Bureau 伴う／関わるing political and 商売／仕事 leaders such as 上院議員 Chris Dodd.

Later they will visit the 国家の 安全 会議 where they are 推定する／予想するd to 会合，会う Mr Obama, then …に出席する a （衆議院の）議長's lunch on （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Hill 含むing 上院議員s and congressm en.

They will 持つ／拘留する a 会合 in the 明言する／公表する Department with Mrs Clinton then continue to a White House 歓迎会 in the evening where the 大統領，／社長 and his 副 are 推定する／予想するd to welcome them.