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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.
All-Party Negotiations
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Statement from Secretary of State on Tuesday Night's Leak (15 May 1992)
Statement from Secretary of State on Tuesday Night's Leak (15 May 1992)
"These Constitutional Talks will shape the future of Northern Ireland. The agreement which ordinary people in both parts of the community so ardently hope will result from them will only be achieved if the Talks proceed in private. All the participants have agreed on this.
"It follows from this that any leak must have been calculated by its perpetrator to prevent agreement and frustrate the Talks. Whoever is responsible would therefore face the condemnation of all ordinary, right-thinking people in Northern Ireland, Whoever did it, and whoever may do it again, cannot count on that person's identity staying secret. For my own part I am wholly satisfied that anyone who leaked this document had no vestige of authority to do so on behalf of any political Party and I know that that action is uniformly and vehemently condemned by each Party Leader participating in the Talks.
"We are not going to reward the perpetrator by allowing our consultations to be halted, or interrupted, by this episode. But we each restate our determination that they proceed in private."
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- Statement from Secretary of State on Tuesday Night's Leak (15 May 1992) (introduced on 1992-05-15 14:17:00 - CREATE_FROM - e850317) [This document]
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