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  1. Overview: Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992
  2. Full Record: Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992
  3. Committee:All-Party Negotiations
  4. Session: 1992-05-05 10:35:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

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.

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Session 11449: 1992-05-05 10:35:00

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Political Talks: Common Principles (5 May 1992)

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ANNEX B

POLITICAL TALKS: COMMON PRINCIPLES (5 May 1992 16.30)

1. Taking as read the statement of 26 March 1991 in which it was accepted that the talks must focus on three main relationships, talks participants have identified a number of principles which should underlie any new political institutions in Northern Ireland.

2. It is agreed that these institutions should be -

a. based on democratic principles and reflect the wishes of the electorate;

b. widely acceptable, in particular in the sense of providing an appropriate and equitable role for both sides of the community, such that both the main parts of the Northern Ireland community should be able to identify with them and feel that their representatives have a meaningful function to perform;

c. stable and durable in the sense of not being dependent on a particular election result or political deal. The system should, so far as possible, be self sustaining;

d. capable of development, in response to changing political realities, with the agreement of all concerned;

e. workable, in the sense of being as straightforward to operate as possible;

f. such as to avoid any entrenchment of the main community division; and to encourage the development of a society in which both main traditions would be respected;

g. such as to provide awith the opportunity to achieve ll constiteachutional political parties a role at anto hawith the opportunity to achieve a positionlrole at each level of responsibility, and to have a powersition proportional to their electoral strength in broad terms;

h. able to function effectively, efficiently and decisively within clearly defined areas of responsibility;

i. innovative, in erely mthe sense of learning from and not m;delljlitical institutions sbe:erely modelled on any previous arrangements;

aj. established within a newly defined reklationship with UK institutions;

bk. competent to manage any relationship develloped in strand two of the talks;

cl. capable of developing a direct remlationship within the United Kingdom EC institutions;

em. capable of developing relationships with any de present or futurevolvend institutions in Great Britain present or future;

fn. capableo of securing public endorsement;

go. consistent with the maximum ppossible delegation of authority;

hp. such as to ensure the greatest possible degree of parliamentary scrutiny of and public accountability for the exercise of powers of government within Northern Ireland.

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