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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Meeting between members of the Alliance Party delegation, led by John Alderdice, and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Patrick Mayhew.
Conclusions of the Bilateral Alliance 21 October 1992
The Alliance party have sought the meeting in order to provide their assessment of the present delicate state of play and to obtain an understanding of how the Government team is approaching the last critical phase.
Alliance party sees four main issues requiring negotiation and resolution:
Other concerns:
Dr Alderdice is concerned that the bilaterals with Sir Ninian might go on too long and that if the Talks collapsed the constitutional path would be undermined and the work of democratic politicians greatly devalued.