[While saying that there had been] some progress, ... there are difficulties ahead.

Everything that the company is saying says that things are continuing to progress. (But) it is hard to verify that independently. You are taking it with a lot of faith.

We now have a chance to create a genuine partnership between unionists and nationalists in a novel form of government.

You cannot say that there is a peace agreement if some party has a private army armed to the teeth ready for action.

This clears the stalemate we have had in terms of process,

I hope we can actually bring about fairly soon a situation in Northern Ireland where everybody, even those who, at the moment, are skeptical of the process, can feel safe and confident.