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US government ended Sinn Féin no-contact policy

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Anthony Lake, then US National Security Adviser, announced that the US government had ended its policy prohibiting contact with Sinn Féin. Sinn Féin met with US officials in Washington on 4 October 1994.

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Elliott, S., and W.D. Flackes, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory, 1968-1999 (Belfast, Blackstaff 1999)