Sinn Féin say they will not attend US St Patrick’s Day celebrations

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Sinn Féin say they will not attend US St Patrick’s Day celebrations

Jayne McCormack

BBC News NI political correspondent

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When power-sharing is functioning, it is custom for the first and deputy first ministers to make the trip to Washington DC.

McDonald said she had followed the president’s comments on Gaza with “growing concern” and had listened in “horror” to calls for “mass expulsion of the ************ people from their homes and the permanent seizure of ************ lands”.

“Such an approach is a fundamental breach of international law is deeply destabilising in the Middle East and a dangerous departure from the UN position of peace and security for both Palestinians and Israelis and the right of Palestinians to self-determination.”

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Mary Lou McDonald says Irish people have listened “in horror” to comments made by Donald Trump

O’Neill said Trump’s comments on “forced expulsion of the ************ people of Gaza cannot be ignored”.

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, she said that she will “continue to engage with senior figures in the US for peace and economic growth”.

“In the future, when our children and grandchildren ask us what we did while the ************ people endured unimaginable suffering, I will say I stood firmly on the side of humanity,” she added.

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