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		</div><p>Mr Kerry made his comments during an event in the United States to mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.</p>
<p>He told the BBC’s Sunday Politics program that a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland could “re-heat passions”.</p>
<p>Mr Kerry was joined by politicians from Northern Ireland’s five main parties at Yale University.</p>
<p><em>“Under the Stormont Agreement, the last 20 years have been characterized by a border which people have been able to cross easily,”</em> he said.</p>
<p><em>“If you have a certain kind of Brexit with a hard border you could see great difficulties emerge as a consequence of that.</em></p>
<p><em>“I have concerns that depending on what kind of Brexit takes place it could have a negative impact on the progress made in the last 20 years.</em></p>
<p><em>“It could re-heat passions one way or the other or both depending on what it is. We have to see how this is going to be resolved.</em></p>
<p><em>“It’s imperative that it’s resolved in a way that it does not reignite the Troubles.”</em></p>
<p>The Democrat stressed his meeting with Northern Ireland’s parties was not a negotiation, describing it instead as an “informal meeting”.</p>
<p>“It’s an academic meeting at a university where the parties came to be able to explore their dynamics and to have a candid, out of the spotlight, frank conversation with people who know something about the issue and care about the issue,” he added.</p>
<p>He refused to say whether he would chair any new talks at Stormont or whether an independent person should be appointed in any future talks process.</p>
<p>He added that it was important for dialogue to begin and steps taken to help “calm things down”.</p>
<p>One of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement, Senator George Mitchell, who also attended the Yale conference, said the appointment of an outside facilitator “could be helpful”.</p>
<p><em>“It has been helpful in the past and that’s a decision however for the people of the UK, Northern Ireland and Ireland to make,”</em> he said.</p>
<p><em>“The decision was to have me involved and I welcomed it, President Clinton welcomed it and the American people did all they could to be helpful.</em></p>
<p><em>“But the fundamental decision on whether there should be external assistance should come internally.”</em></p>
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