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Thu 08 Aug 2003Trimble backs body monitoring ceasefiresA monitoring body set up to review paramilitary ceasefires should be able to ensure that political parties in Northern Ireland do not have a paramilitary link, Ulster Unionist leader, Mr David Trimble, said today.Emerging from a lunchtime meeting with members of the South Antrim UUP Constituency Association in Templepatrick, the Upper Bann MP said his party remained focused on achieving an end to all paramilitary activity.