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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.
British-Alliance Talks
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Session 11615: 1991-05-08 10:37:00
Meeting between Alliance delegation and the British Government delegation
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Position of Parties on the Morning of 8 May
Starting Position for the Discussion of Strand 2 Location on 8 May
Full party delegations should be invited to attend the bilateral meetings.
Party Positions:
- The Alliance position was flexible, they had a preference for Belfast on grounds of practicality but would agree to whatever venue was acceptable to the other parties;
- The SDLP would accept a situation of alternation starting with London and moving back to the island of Ireland. Their first preference on the island was Dublin but for symbolic purposes would accept Armagh;
- The Unionist position was an insistence in principle on a GB location for Strand Two, preferably near to London. They would be prepared to contemplate a meeting late in Strand Two on the island but not in the Republic and not at Stormont. There was some fuzziness about visiting Dublin late in the process, perhaps in Strand Three, but this had not been clarified;
- The Irish Government's position as of the previous week was that the first meeting of Strand Two should be on the island of Ireland (not necessarily Dublin) and then alternating between London and Dublin, the initial venue to be decided by tossing a coin.
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- Position of Parties on the Morning of 8 May (introduced on 1991-05-08 10:37:00 - CREATE_FROM - e823296) [This document]
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