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.
Meetings between the British Government, the UUP and the DUP. Dates of meetings created from source material, but records of discussions not currently available to us.
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This session is created to model an exchange of letters between the Secretary of State and the Joint Unionist delegation on 16 and 17 May 1991.
[Editor's Note: This letter is written on headed paper from 'The Private Secretary' in the Northern Ireland Office. The salutation and signature are by hand. The copy on file is a poor photocopy.]
Rt Hon J H Molyneaux JP MP
& Rev Dr I R K Paisley MP MEP
17th May 1991
Dear Mr Molyneaux and Dr Paisley,
The Secretary of State has received the memorandum you sent to him earlier today. He has asked me say that he will now initiate the further consultations with the other participants which he has previously said would be necessary.
It is clear to him that it will not be possible to hold a plenary session of the first strand of the talks on Monday (20 May). I will be advising the other parties to this effect. He is hoping to see them on Monday morning, and he would, therefore, be grateful if you were to be available in Parliament Buildings on Monday afternoon for a possible discussion with him.
Yours sincerely,
Tony Pawson
A J D Pawson