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05/06/2002
Clinton opens Enniskillen peace centre
Former US President Bill Clinton has arrived in Northern Ireland this afternoon to formally open a new peace centre in Enniskillen.
The Clinton Peace Centre in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, bears the former president's name in tribute to his efforts to achieve international peace.
At the opening of the centre Mr Clinton referred to the recent sectarian violence in Belfast as the "last gasp of an old order".
The Enniskillen visit marks Mr Clinton's return to the Fermanagh town, which is the site of one of the province's worst terrorist attacks, the Poppy Day Bombing, which killed 11 people on Remembrance Sunday in 1987.
Mr Clinton is on a three-day visit to Ireland which will also see him travel to Dublin to meet with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and various business leaders from throughout the country.
During his last visit to Northern Ireland in 2001, Mr Clinton met with builders and architects involved in the construction of the centre, and he has now returned to officially open the facility, which has cost more than £3 million to construct.
Mr Clinton was to be joined at the ceremony by first and deputy first ministers David Trimble and Mark Durkan, but Mr Trimble had to cancel the engagement for crisis talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on continued community tension in Belfast.
(CL)
The Clinton Peace Centre in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, bears the former president's name in tribute to his efforts to achieve international peace.
At the opening of the centre Mr Clinton referred to the recent sectarian violence in Belfast as the "last gasp of an old order".
The Enniskillen visit marks Mr Clinton's return to the Fermanagh town, which is the site of one of the province's worst terrorist attacks, the Poppy Day Bombing, which killed 11 people on Remembrance Sunday in 1987.
Mr Clinton is on a three-day visit to Ireland which will also see him travel to Dublin to meet with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and various business leaders from throughout the country.
During his last visit to Northern Ireland in 2001, Mr Clinton met with builders and architects involved in the construction of the centre, and he has now returned to officially open the facility, which has cost more than £3 million to construct.
Mr Clinton was to be joined at the ceremony by first and deputy first ministers David Trimble and Mark Durkan, but Mr Trimble had to cancel the engagement for crisis talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on continued community tension in Belfast.
(CL)
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