[{"insert":"NBPM\nFile with my letter to Martin Howard of 20 June, John 24/6. \n\n20 June 1996"},{"attributes":{"align":"right"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nDear Mr Holmes\n\t\tFurther to our conversation today I enclose a fax of the page from which Ancram read out the typed text. After he did so he passed the paper to us. I immediately scribbled out the second sentence Ancram then wrote, as you can see, that the objective was for the parties to "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"adopt"},{"insert":" the ground rules.\nThe number 240 at foot shows that this text was prepared well before Wednesday. This \"accident\" had been waiting to happen for some time!\n\nSincerely\n\tDavid Trimble\n\nThese "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"procedural guidelines"},{"insert":" /rules of procedure/ supplement and develop the Ground Rules for the Substantive All-Party Negotiations published by the two Governments on 16 April 1996. "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"Taken together they constitute the procedural rules for the negotiations as a whole and can only be amended by agreement /, in accordance.../"},{"insert":"\n\n- this proposed formula gives the parties the opportunity formally to adopt the Ground Rules\n- "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"and"},{"insert":" acknowledges the ability to "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"amend"},{"insert":" Ground Rules.\n\nThese "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"procedural guidelines"},{"insert":" /rules of procedure/ supplement and develop the Ground Rules for the Substantive All-Party Negotiations published by the two Governments on 16 April 1996. "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"Taken together they constitute the procedural rules for the negotiations as a whole and can only be amended by agreement /, in accordance.../"},{"insert":"\n\n- this proposed formula gives the parties the opportunity formally to adopt the Ground Rules\n- "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"and"},{"insert":" acknowledges the ability to "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"amend"},{"insert":" Ground Rules.\n\nPOLDEVT/240\n\n19/6/96\n11:00am from David Hill \n"}]
