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  1. Overview: Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992
  2. Full Record: Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992
  3. Committee:All-Party Negotiations
  4. Session: 1991-07-01 14:20:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992

WORK IN PROGRESS - IN THE FINAL STAGES OF EDITING A series of talks launched by Peter Brooke, Secretary of State for Northern in Ireland, which began in April 1991, and were carried on intermittently by Brooke and his successor, Patrick Mayhew, until November 1992.

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Session 11411: 1991-07-01 14:20:00

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Working Document: Political Talks Realities and Common Themes: Paragraph 18

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The Nature of the Northern Ireland Community

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Political Talks: Realities and Common Themes [HMG Paper of 29 June 1991] - Paragraph 18

18. There seems general support for the view that there are [at least] two distinct communal identities in Northern Ireland, both of which need to be given full recognition by the other so that they can be appropriately accommodated in the political system here, • taking account of the wider framework of relationships within these islands.

[Alliance Principles 1 and 2; SDLP para 15; DUP paras 46, 47; UUP para 36]

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[Extracts drawn together from the parties' position second position papers that are printed in the Internal Record of the 1908 session on 1 July and appear to have been circulated for discussion at the meeting.]

Alliance para 6: "Given that there are, as in every community,

distinct identities ..... it is necessary to create common

institutions and instruments of government which all can

participate and with which all can identify".

SDLP para 3: "The goal of the talks is to accommodate two sets

of legitimate rights - the right of Unionist and Nationalist to

effective political and symbolic expression of their identity".

UDUP para 4: "We cannot but recognise that there are separate

identities which reach out beyond the confines of Northern

Ireland itself".

[Editor's Note: We assume that the discrepancy in paragraph numbering between the original government paper and the extracts in the record of the meeting on 1 July relates to the fact that the parties submitted a second round of papers.]

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