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in Northern Ireland including means of encouraging
widespread community support for these arrangements’’;
Whereas the Independent Commission on Policing, led by Sir
Christopher Patten, concluded its work on September 9,
1999, and proposed 175 recommendations in its final re-
port to ensure a new beginning to policing, consistent
with the requirements in the Good Friday Agreement;
Whereas the Patten report explicitly ‘‘warned in the strongest
terms against cherry-picking from this report or trying to
implement some major elements of it in isolation from
others’’;
Whereas section 405 of the Admiral James W. Nance and
Meg Donovan Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fis-
cal Years 2000 and 2001 (as contained in H.R. 3427, as
enacted by section 1000(a)(7) of Public Law 106–113,
and as contained in appendix G to such Public Law) re-
quires President Clinton to certify, among other things,
that the Governments of the United Kingdom and Ire-
land are committed to assisting in the full implementa-
tion of the recommendations contained in the Patten
Commission report issued on September 9, 1999 before
the Federal Bureau of Investigation or any other Federal
law enforcement agency can provide training for the
Royal Ulster Constabulary;
Whereas a May 5, 2000, joint letter by the British Prime
Minister and the Irish Prime Minister stated that ‘‘legis-
lation to implement the Patten report will, subject to
Parliament, be enacted by November 2000’’;
Whereas on May 16, 2000, the British Government published
the proposed Police (Northern Ireland) bill, which pur-
ports to implement in law the Patten report;
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Whereas many of the signatories to the Good Friday Agree-
ment have stated that the draft bill does not live up to
the letter or spirit of the Patten report and dilutes or
does not implement many key recommendations of the
Patten Commission;
Whereas Northern Ireland’s main nationalist parties have in-
dicated that they will not participate or encourage par-
ticipation in the new policing structures unless the Pat-
ten report is fully implemented; and
Whereas on June 15, 2000, British Secretary of State for
Northern Ireland Peter Mandelson said, ‘‘I remain abso-
lutely determined to implement the Patten recommenda-
tions and to achieve the effective and representative polic-
ing service, accepted in every part of Northern Ireland,
that his report aimed to secure’’: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) commends the parties for progress to date
in implementing all aspects of the Good Friday
Agreement and urges them to move expeditiously to
complete the implementation;
(2) believes that the full and speedy implemen-
tation of the recommendations of the Independent
Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland holds
the promise of ensuring that the police service in
Northern Ireland will gain the support of both na-
tionalists and unionists and that ‘‘policing structures
and arrangements are such that the police service is
fair and impartial, free from partisan political con-
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trol, accountable . . . to the community it serves, rep-
resentative of the society that it polices . . . [and]
complies with human rights norms’’, as mandated by
the Good Friday Agreement; and
(3) calls upon the British Government to fully
and faithfully implement the recommendations con-
tained in the September 9, 1999, Patten Commis-
sion report on policing.
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