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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1. Unionist wish to have Northern Ireland recognised as a natural democratic entity and consequences of that.
2. Unionist failure in real terms to recognise the nationalist identity. In addition they confuse traditions and jurisdictions. They are not co-terminous. No recognition of nationalist tradition's all Ireland frame of reference.
3. The absence of allegiance to institutions of state by sections of the community – an absence which creates particular problems in the fields of justice and order.