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Britain rejected a key part of an Irish Republican Army peace overture as too vague Wednesday and demanded that the group renounce violence in indisputable terms.
Britain and Ireland are pressing the IRA and its allied Sinn Fein party to make new commitments in simple language.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern say the IRA must stop all hostile activities and get rid of stockpiled weapons.
Otherwise, the leaders say, it will be impossible to revive the Catholic-Protestant administration at the heart of the 1998 peace accord.
