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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-SDLP Talks
  4. Session: 1991-05-14 15:30:00
  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-SDLP Talks

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Session 12568: 1991-05-14 15:30:00

Bilateral Meeting between the Government Team and the SDLP held in Parliament Building at 15:30 on 14 May 1991.

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Practical Issues Concerning Strands Two and Three: SDLP Amendments and Clarifications

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Practical Issues Concerning Strands Two and Three: SDLP Amendments and Clarifications

1. There has been extensive discussion of the venue for strand two, and other related practical questions, over the last two weeks.

2. In the light of that, with the benefit of the views expressed, and after close consultation with the Irish Government, I have decided to indicate the basis on which these talks would be held.

Strand Two

3. All meetings of strand two will have an independent chairman whose identity will be announced by the two governments after consultation with other participating parties.

4. Opening plenary meeting of strand two to be held in London.

5. Bulk of substantive exchanges in strand two to be held in Northern Ireland in a location to be determined. (It will of course also be open to the Chairman and the participants to hold non-plenary meetings wherever suits their mutual convenience.)

Non-plenary meetings: substantive exchanges should be in plenary sessions. It was agreed that the bulk of discussion would be in plenary session. The Secretary of State made the point that the plenary meeting might create working groups or decide to go into sub-plenary mode in order to tackle certain pieces of work.

6. A plenary meeting of the strand two discussions to be held in Dublin towards the end of June.

Strand Three

7. While participating parties remain free to discuss strand three issues with the governments, strand three discussions will be concerned with the relationship between the two governments, and will take place between the two governments:

- other participating parties will be kept in touch with progress during strand three by regular liaison

- the two governments will meet other participating parties at their request for further discussion of strand three issues while strand three is taking place

- the outcome of strand three will be considered by all the participants alongside the outcome of the other two strands and nothing will be finally agreed in any strand until everything is agreed in the talks as a whole.

8. The strand one formation or the strand two formation, as appropriate, may consider issues further in the light of progress in strand three.

[Editor's Note: This copy of the government proposal appears as Annex 'A' to the minutes of the Bilateral with the SDLP on 14 May 1991.]

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