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Niall Deeney

Labour leader Keir Starmer due in Derry as 'peace summit' to take place

Labour leader Keir Starmer is due in Derry on Friday for a visit that coincides with a peace summit ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

The John and Pat Hume Foundation is holding the summit on 'Unfinished Business of Reconciliation' at the Magee campus of Ulster University.

Mr Starmer, meanwhile, is due to give an address to students at the late John Hume's former school, St Columb's College on Friday morning.

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He will be speaking to A-level politics students at the school, along with students from the Foyle Learning Community, and is expected to take part in a question and answer session with students.

The John and Pat Hume Foundation say the summit at Magee will "bring together over 100 people to take stock of the unfinished business of peace and reconciliation and to consider how a new generation of peacebuilders can be better supported."

The foundation's secretary, Tim Attwood, said: “John and Pat Hume dedicated their lives to ending violence and building a peace based on partnership, dialogue and respect for diversity, and these were the foundations upon which the historic agreement of 1998 was built.

“The last 25 years have brought relative peace, and we should never take this for granted. The Peace Summit will take a stock check on the unfinished business of peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, recognise the achievements and produce important recommendations for the way forward for the next 25 years.”

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