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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Recommendations of the Business Committee
5 May 1992
(a) the Plenary should not reconvene until after lunch at 2.30;
(b) the Talks Secretariat should draft a paper entitled "Common Principles", which would draw together the main points of agreement from the Plenary discussion on underlying principles in the morning session, and circulate it by 2.00 pm;
(c) this paper should be discussed in the afternoon Plenary Session; and
(d) a "second reading" level debate on the second part of the "Options" paper should take place, as previously agreed, on Thursday 7 May.