London, Oct. 1, IRNA - Northern Ireland should learn from South Africa's example of a peaceful transition to democracy, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said, arriving in Johannesburg Monday.
"We have a duty to listen and try to replicate what you have done here, back home in Ireland," Adams was quoted saying by the UK Press Association. The formation of a democratic South Africa was "one of the greatest human achievements of the last century," he said.
Sinn Fein leader is due to brief former president Nelson Mandela on recent events in Northern Ireland during his visit. In his two previous visits, he has often compared the experience of the country's black population to Catholics in Northern Ireland.
Adams is also scheduled to visit Robben Island, where Mandela was incarcerated for three decades during the apartheid era, and unveil a plaque in memory of the IRA hunger-strikers in the 1980s.
Source: ISLAMIC REPUBLIC WIRE, Iran
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