Meanings of assert yesterday in English

THE Government has no plan to conduct forensic testing on decommissioned paramilitary arms, senior Government sources asserted yesterday.

The Government and supporters of the Amsterdam Treaty are engaging in a campaign of misrepresentation and scaremongering, the Green Party asserted yesterday.

On the political level, the prominent Palestinian leader, Dr Hanan Ashrawi, asserted yesterday, there has been no peace process since the Israeli elections.

MR Gerry Adams asserted yesterday that an electoral mandate should secure Sinn Fein a place at the talks table by right, regardless of IRA activities.

The "Real IRA" cannot evade responsibility for the human carnage caused by the 1998 bombing atrocity in Omagh, the coroner hearing the inquests asserted yesterday.