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13/06/2002
Loyalist Commission expected to unveil anti-violence strategy
UPDATE: Although loyalist community representatives were widely expected to unveil a new strategy on Thursday evening calling for an end to violence at sectarian flashpoints throughout Belfast, hopes of this have petered out.
Following an attack on a protestant area, members of the Loyalist Commission, an umbrella group representing loyalist paramilitaries, church leaders and politicians, postponed a major new initiative which would have seen a call to prevent loyalist 'first strikes' at interface areas.
It had earlier been reported that the Commission members would agree that violence would be curbed in loyalist areas unless these areas were attacked first by nationalists.
The Commission was also expected to make fresh calls on nationalist representatives in turn to use their influence to halt trouble.
The umbrella group includes members of the three main loyalist paramilitary groups - the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Red Hand Commandos and the Ulster Defence Association.
In the past the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party David Trimble and the Methodist President Harold Good have also taken part in talks with the Commission.
(AMcE/SP)
Following an attack on a protestant area, members of the Loyalist Commission, an umbrella group representing loyalist paramilitaries, church leaders and politicians, postponed a major new initiative which would have seen a call to prevent loyalist 'first strikes' at interface areas.
It had earlier been reported that the Commission members would agree that violence would be curbed in loyalist areas unless these areas were attacked first by nationalists.
The Commission was also expected to make fresh calls on nationalist representatives in turn to use their influence to halt trouble.
The umbrella group includes members of the three main loyalist paramilitary groups - the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Red Hand Commandos and the Ulster Defence Association.
In the past the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party David Trimble and the Methodist President Harold Good have also taken part in talks with the Commission.
(AMcE/SP)
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