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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SUB-COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON 7 MAY 1992 TO DISCUSS THE QUESTION OF IDENTITIES
Government Team
Mr Hanley
Mr Bell
Mr Hill
Talks Secretariat
Mr Lindsay
Also Present
Mr A Smyth
Alliance Party
Mr McBride
Mrs Bell
SDLP
Mr Haughey
Mr Durkan
UDUP
Mr Campbell
Mr Gibson
Mr Vitty (part)
UUP
Mr Cunningham
Mr Empey
Mrs Bradford
The Sub-Committee met from 2.15 pm to 6.15 pm with a break for tea.
2. There was a wide-ranging, comprehensive and informative discussion of the identities which exist in Northern Ireland and the differing perceptions of those identities across the communal divide.
3. It was agreed that each individual and community had the absolute right to define their own identity; and that that right and identity should be respected.
4. It was re-affirmed that any new political institutions should be such as to give expression to the identity and validity of each main tradition.
5. Attached are copies of the papers produced by each of the parties on this issue.