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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:British-Unionist Talks
  4. Session: 1991-05-09 12:18:00
  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.

British-Unionist Talks

Meetings between the British Government, the UUP and the DUP. Dates of meetings created from source material, but records of discussions not currently available to us.

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Session 12556: 1991-05-09 12:18:00

Bilateral meeting between the Government Team and the Unionist delegations at Parliament Buildings.

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Location of Strand 2: Meeting with Unionist Delegations to Discuss Government Proposal (9 May 12:18)

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Arrangements for the Talks - Meeting with the Unionist Delegations on 9 May 12:18

Strand 3:

Any agreed outcome could only be implemented by the two Governments and it was thus necessary to devise a means of presenting the views of others. The issue of how views would be presented in the third strand should be cleared up now. It would be impossible to do that without talking to the Irish Government and that conversation would have implications for any suggestions about the venue of Strand 2. The Unionists wished Strand 3 to be concluded in London; against the background of the proposal that strand two should be held in a neutral country the Irish might well take the view that a substantial part of the third strand should take place in Dublin.

Unionists were not ruling out Dublin as a location for meetings of the third strand; they were simply saying that the final meeting had to be in London.

Strand 2:

The Unionist position was that the Secretary of State should chair Strand 2.

General Approach to Negotiations:

It was not sensible to proceed and only to allow disagreement at the very end.

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