CAPTION: Martin McGuinness was commemorated last month at Stormont, with the unveiling of new portrait. Irish Americans will tomorrow launch a set of principles in his honour at a ceremony in New York.
Prominent Irish-Americans will gather tomorrow night at a top New York university to launch a new set of 'principles', to commemorate the Derry republican Martin McGuinness.
The McGuinness Principles which are based around the tenets of equality, respect, truth and self-determination, will be formally published at a ceremony at Molloy College on Long Island.
The organizers of the event - which marks the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, will also be stressing the 'urgent need' for the appointment of a new US special envoy to the North.
They are calling for:
* A Bill of Rights
* Full statutory equality for the Irish Language
* Funding for legacy inquests as part of the process of healing and reconciliation, and
* A referendum on Irish unity in keeping with the Good Friday Agreement.
A spokesperson said: "Despite the fact that Brexit clearly represents a change in status of Northern Ireland, and despite theta fact that the people of the North voted by a large majority to reject Brexit and remain inside the European Union, the British government is determined to impose this very significant chance (having potentially profound consequences for Ireland), on the people of Ireland, north and south, against their democratically-expressed wishes.
"If the Good Friday Agreement's commitments to self-determination are to have any meaning, the British government must allow the Irish people the opportunity to determine their future'.
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