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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ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED IN THE SEARCH FOR AGREEMENT ON A NEW RELATIONSHIP
1. The Territorial claim (Articles 2 and 3). Unambiguous consensus on constitutional issues.
2. The absence of institutional structures for contact and co-operation between the two parts of Ireland. (Kernel of Strand II).
3. The need to ensure that the outcome of the talks, taken as a whole – internal arrangements for the government of Northern Ireland, a new North/South relationship, future relations between the two Governments – give appropriate expression to the identities of both main traditions, on a basis of parity of esteem.