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.
Dates of meetings created from source material, but records of discussions not currently available to us.
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Meeting between Patrick Mayhew and John Hume to discuss the impasse resulting from the SDLP proposal for externally appointed commissioners.
[SDLP Statement Proposed by the UK Government to Break the Impasse]
The SDLP [...] agree to a working up of arrangements which [exclude] a direct external input. They [...] do so on the basis that they [reserve] the right to return to their own preferred scheme in Strand 2 if the Unionists [do] not come forward with adequate proposals then. [In] principle [they could] live with a worked up scheme for internal government minus external commissioners provided the Strand 2 outcome was satisfactory.