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Orangemen Meet US Envoy

16 December 2004

The Orange Order has said that it welcomed the opportunity to recently meet Us Special Envoy Mitchel Reiss.

The meeting with senior Orange officials was arranged by Lagan Valley MP, Jeffrey Donaldson, a past Assistant Grand Master of the Order, who was also present at the US Consulate meeting.

The delegation outlined to Mr Reiss the background and significance of the Order within the Protestant community, and highlighted areas of concern. The Order said in a statement that it hoped the meeting would be the first of a number which would allow Mr Reiss to be briefed on the organisation and its views.

The meeting followed the leaking of comments which Mr Reiss made about parades in the summer, and the US Envoy assured Orange officials that the comments had been taken out of context from the body of an e-mail which he sent. He accepted that the majority of Orange Order parades were peaceful and had no attendant problems and expressed a willingness to learn more about the Institution.

Orange officials stressed the religious, cultural and community values of the organisation and urged the Us administration to take on board concerns about unionist and Protestant alienation, a spokesman said.

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