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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to recognize the Good Friday Agreement on | ||||||
| 4 | the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its ratification as | ||||||
| 5 | the framework for lasting peace in Northern Ireland; and | ||||||
| 6 | WHEREAS, The Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast, | ||||||
| 7 | Northern Ireland on April 10, 1998; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, The Good Friday Agreement represented a landmark | ||||||
| 9 | breakthrough that provided Ireland with a political framework | ||||||
| 10 | to address its future; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, The Good Friday Agreement acknowledged the right | ||||||
| 12 | of differing political traditions to pursue their goals of | ||||||
| 13 | remaining part of the United Kingdom or of Irish unity; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, The Good Friday Agreement demonstrated democratic | ||||||
| 15 | and peaceful means of resolving differences; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Despite the historic progress of the Good Friday | ||||||
| 17 | Agreement and subsequent agreements, important issues remain | ||||||
| 18 | unresolved in Northern Ireland, including securing justice for | ||||||
| 19 | victims of state-sponsored violence and other violence and | ||||||
| 20 | providing for the rights of all sections of the community; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, In the United States, members of both political | ||||||
| 2 | parties came together in support of the Good Friday Agreement; | ||||||
| 3 | therefore, be it
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| 4 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 5 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 6 | we recognize the 25th anniversary of the ratification of the | ||||||
| 7 | Good Friday Agreement as the framework for lasting peace in | ||||||
| 8 | Northern Ireland; and be it further
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| 9 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 10 | presented to the 24th Chair Mark Daly of the Senate of Ireland | ||||||
| 11 | and the national co-chairs of the American Irish State | ||||||
| 12 | Legislators Caucus, which include Representative Frances A. | ||||||
| 13 | Hurley of the Illinois General Assembly, Assemblywoman Carol | ||||||
| 14 | Murphy of the New Jersey Legislature, Assemblyman Robin Vos of | ||||||
| 15 | the Wisconsin State Assembly, Senator Shannon O'Brien of the | ||||||
| 16 | Montana Legislature, Representative Brian Patrick Kennedy of | ||||||
| 17 | the Rhode Island General Assembly, Assemblyman James Gallagher | ||||||
| 18 | of the California State Assembly, and Representative Killian | ||||||
| 19 | Timoney of the Kentucky General Assembly.
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