The rejectionist unionsts will again scorn this. They want to destroy the Good Friday Agreement. We now want to see it implemented. We want to work with unionists in sorting out those vexed and difficult issues that continue to divide, and confuse, and separate us. Our immediate goal is to forge a partnership with unionism that will see us labour together within the new institutions and govern in fairness and in honesty, with justice and equality.
Unionists have nothing to fear from sharing power with republicans.
The fact is that we live on a small island. It is too small for us to stand alone and aloof from each other. Our destiny is intertwined. Our freedoms are inextricably bound up together. We cannot move forward into a new century separately, isolated and alone.