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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Rebecca Black

Young people of Northern Ireland urged never to take peace for granted

Senator George Mitchell, who brokered the Good Friday Agreement, at an event in Queen’s University Belfast as plans were unveiled to build a new home for a peace institute in his name (Queen’s University Belfast/PA) - (PA Media)

The people of Northern Ireland have been urged to give each other’s traditions space and time to “flourish side by side” by the man who helped broker the Good Friday Agreement.

Addressing young people in Belfast, former US Senator George Mitchell, 91, urged them to take the future seriously, and never take peace for granted.

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