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Mon 10 Oct 2001Hume urges North politicians to set example for worldNorthern Ireland's politicians can offer hope to the rest of the world after the US terror attacks by implementing the Belfast Agreement in full, the outgoing SDLP leader, Mr John Hume, claimed tonight.The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who will stand down as leader of the party next month, told a fringe event at the British Labour Party conference in Brighton that paramilitary decommissioning would greatly strengthen Northern Ireland’s political institutions.