BELFAST, SEPT 3: The imminent visit of US President Bill Clinton in Northern Ireland further accelerated pace in the peace process Thursday with new moves on para-military disarmament and anti-terror laws.With events gathering speed as the IRA's political wing announced this week that violence must end and that it would join talks on disarmament, Clinton is to press for full implementation of the April 10 peace deal.Clinton is due to be met by British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Belfast in the morning before having talks with local political leaders and making a key-note address in Belfast.He will then travel to Omagh, where on August 15 a bomb killed 28 people and injured 220, before moving on to a two-day visit to Ireland.Meanwhile the House of Commons was expected to follow Dublin's Lower House in passing a new anti-terror laws aimed at rounding up armed dissidents opposed to the peace process, such as the Real IRA who planted the Omagh bomb.The moves appear carefully choreographed to tryto push for the implementation of the historic April 10 peace deal and secure the permanent inclusion of Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland's political process.In the build up to Clinton's visit, Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, has condemned an attack by pro-united Ireland paramilitaries - the bomb in Omagh - for the first time.On Tuesday, Adams announced: "Sinn Fein believe the violence we have seen must be for all of us now a thing of the past, over, done with and gone."On Wednesday Sinn Fein said a key member, party number two Martin McGuinness, would join talks on handing weapons.The appointment of McGuinness, who is continually accused of having links to, if not some control over the IRA, was intended as a sign that the party was serious a bout seeing arsenals destroyed.And on Thursday, in a widely leaked statement, an anonymous IRA member will say that the IRA is preparing to tell relatives of around 20 ``missing'' victims where their bodies wereburied.Although the statement in the Irish Republican News will also reiterate the IRA's Opposition to declaring a permanent ceasefire or disarmament, it will urge the disbandment of the Real IRA.April's peace deal has met a stumbling block over the IRA's refusal to disarm, With Unionists refusing to sit in government with Sinn Fein until at least token amounts of weapons and explosives are handed in or destroyed.In spite of the IRA's continued refusal to disarm, Sinn Fein hopes its diluted hardline stance will convince unionists to work with it.It is particularly keen to begin setting up the North-South bodies described under the deal which will give Ireland a say in North's affairs for the first time, a key concession to their aspirations for a united Ireland.The recent pace has been provided by a triple impetus: the Omagh bomb, which briefly unified all politicians against terror, the convening this month of the new Northern Ireland's government and Clinton's visit.The Clinton's presence,promoting the peace process and urging an end to violence, has immense influence on pro-united Ireland republicans.He heads a state which has 44 million people who trace themselves to Ireland, and where most fund-raising for republican armed groups takes place.Meanwhile early Thursday the Irish Lower House the Dail approved without opposition a new draft of self-confessed ``draconian'' laws proposed in Omagh's wake.The Commons in London, which overwhelmingly backed the Bill on its second reading early Thursday, was expected to approve a third and final reading hours later.The measures provoked fierce debate in the Commons, where they were criticised as against human rights, likely to prompt support for groups such as the Real IRA, and rushed.
