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{File John 20/6}
From: JOHN HOLMES Date: 19 June 1996
_PRIME MINISTER_
NORTHERN IRELAND
Paddy Mayhew will be reporting to Cabinet on the talks in Belfast, but you may like an update as of this evening. Michael Ancram told me that it had been another day of very hard negotiation. The plenary met only briefly under Mitchell with most of the activity taking place in bilaterals.
Reasonable progress has been made on the procedural guidelines for the opening plenary. There are still problems on the plenary agenda, but Michael thinks they should be soluble, not least since the Irish have now agreed to move decommissioning up the order and to remove from Mitchell the onus of deciding whether all participants are ready to implement the Mitchell compromise.
The new problem, which Bruton mentioned to you on the telephone, is that the Unionists have sought to reopen the Ground Rules. You will recall that these were published some time ago, and are the reference document for the Parliamentary bill on the elections. They cannot therefore be simply amended.
We, the Irish and UUP are looking for ways round this, and there are possible compromises available. But the problems looked unlikely to be finally resolved this evening.
The likelihood is therefore that the plenary will be adjourned again until Monday, with an attempt to sort out the problems in the corridors before then.
JOHN HOLMES {JM}
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A brief report to the Prime Minister on the procedural difficulties that had occurred in the talks that day.
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