CPL1/22650
{90C} 25 JUN 1996
CONFIDENTIAL
Ref: INT 8
FROM: CLIVE BARBOUR
TALKS SECRETARIAT
24 JUNE 1996
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TALKS: CONTINUING CONFERRING ON PROCEDURAL RULES - 24 JUNE
I attach the internal record of this morning's session.
(Signed)
CLIVE BARBOUR
RECORD OF CONFERRING SESSION CASTLE BUILDINGS, 24 JUNE 1996
_INDEPENDENT CHAIRMEN_
Mr Holkeri
General de Chastelain
_BRITISH GOVERNMENT TEAM_
Michael Ancram
Mr Leach
Mr Hill
_IRISH GOVERNMENT TEAM_
Mr Gleeson
Minister Coveney
Mr O hUiginn
_ALLIANCE PARTY_
Mr McBride
Mr Close
_LABOUR_
Mr Curran
Mr Casey
_NI WOMEN'S COALITION_
Ms Hinds
_PUP_
Mr Hutchinson
Mr Irvine
_SDLP_
Mr Mallon
_UDP_
Mr Adams
Mr English
_UDUP_
Dr Paisley
Rev McCrea
_UK UNIONIST_
Mr McCartney
Mr Wilson
_UK UP_
Mr McCartney
Mr Dudgeon
_UUP_
Mr Trimble
Mr Empey
_SUMMARY_
A short meeting which saw the parties agreeing to adjourn pending further bilaterals and to meet later to consider revised Procedural Rules.
_DETAIL_
2. _Mr Holkeri_ opened the meeting at 10.05. He summarised the current position by stating that some parties had expressed the view that the draft Procedural Rules circulated on 19 June should be more comprehensive. The Chair had been informed that some progress had been made following bilateral meetings held on the previous Thursday. He hoped\, therefore\, that if further meetings continued\, it might be possible to produce amended draft Procedural Rules for the meeting to consider later in the morning. Ge therefore proposed that the meeting should adjourn until 1200 in the expectation that a new text would be circulated around 1100 for the delegations' consideration.
3. _Mr McCartney_\, sought clarification about who would produce the new draft and (a dig at the two Governments) if it would be prepared by the Chairman's Secretariat? He also wondered if it would take into account proposals put forward at bilaterals and would be by no means final.
4. _Dr Paisley_\, interjected to suggest that the revised draft would merely be one agreed by the two Governments. _Mr Holkeri_ replied that the draft would certainly include suggestions put forward by the two Governments. _Dr Paisley_ wondered how the forthcoming bilaterals could have any influence on the draft to be circulated at 1100 hours\, _Mr Holkeri_ concluded by stressing that the draft could take on board any suggestions put forward at the bilateral meetings and that the time table for circulating the draft was merely indicative in order to keep the process on-going.
5. The meeting adjourned at 1011.
CONFIDENTIAL
LS/TALKS/1513
