As news of the impasse spread around the world, Mr Clinton is said to have become concerned.
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He and wife Hillary also made a historic “feelgood” Christmas visit to Belfast in 1995.
This was backed up yesterday by one of Mr Clinton’s former senior aides.
In a message to people living in Northern Ireland, Mr Coaker said: “The rest of the United Kingdom still cares and we do want you to succeed”.
A ray of light in the bid to save the collapse of Stormont in Northern Ireland has emerged with all parties agreeing to round-table talks.
However, the reception to his offer, while respectful, has been cool.
Mr Corbyn said she was serving a jail sentence at Holloway Prison in his Islington North seat when she was elected.
“Our party has helped to bring about a substantially better Northern Ireland, but now is the time to move forward, tackling numerous outstanding issues arising from the different traditions and competing narratives, as well as legacy issues around victims, mental health, economic insecurity and poverty”.
However, he encouraged Mr Clinton to “persuade parties to fulfil their responsibilities”.
“There is also the big challenge of seeing whether we can actually get over the hurdle of implementing the Stormont House Agreement”.
“If Mr Clinton is able to persuade parties to fulfil their responsibilities in these areas then people would obviously welcome that”.
The talks are being hosted by the British government’s Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers and the Republic’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan.
“Finding a way to resolve the two issues on the talks agenda will be very hard”.
But she added that the parties had “established a sound basis on which to take forward the discussions with greater intensity” this week.
Speaking to UTV’s Marc Mallett, he said: “What we will do in the next few days is take some time as a party and decide about the options that are before us and certainly talk to the government about what they are going to do because they have to respond properly to what has happened”.
It will investigate the structure, role and goal of the bodies, the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said, following the murder of a man by Provisional IRA members which has rocked the political establishment.
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DUP leader Peter Robinson (center) holds a press conference with Nigel Dodds and acting First Minister Arlene Foster at Stormont on Monday.
