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Mon 04 Apr 2003No cause for optimism over peace yet - SFA number of issues affecting the North's peace process have to be still resolved, a leading Sinn Féin figure claimed today.As US president George W Bush flew to Belfast at a critical stage in the process, the party's national chairman MR Mitchel McLaughlin said it was too early to be optimistic about efforts to secure the full implementation of the Belfast Agreement.