41.   Many in the Protestant majority already were skeptical about the peace process, believing their interests were being ignored.

42.   Pro-British Protestants accused Britain of surrendering to the Irish Republican Army at the expense of the Protestant majority.

43.   Sinn Fein approved of its plans to make the cross-border council relatively independent of the Northern Ireland assembly, which would have a Protestant majority.

44.   Sinn Fein, for its part, is refusing to sit in the debating forum because it will have a Protestant majority.

45.   The agreement has opened splits within the Protestant majority and the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland.

46.   The goal is finding a way to govern Northern Ireland acceptable to its pro-British Protestant majority and Catholic minority.

47.   The goal of the nine-party Belfast negotiations is to find a way to govern Northern Ireland acceptable to both its pro-British Protestant majority and minority Catholics.

48.   The party says any moves by the IRA should be matched by the army and police, as well as by armed organizations based in the Protestant majority community.

49.   The pro-British Protestant majority wants a new parliament for Northern Ireland to be the only powerful institution to come out of discussions.

50.   The Protestant majority demands strengthened links with Britain while Catholic leaders want formal ties with the rest of Ireland.