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Telegram From David Blatherwick Regarding a Gerry Adams Press Conference in Dublin on the 12 October 1993

Wednesday, 13 October 1993

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This document provides the corrected text of paragraph 5 of a previous telegram (TEL NO 333), which discussed the part of Adams' press conference where he referred to the Joint Declaration. Adams' public position was that self-determination should be defined in terms of the entire island of Ireland and that unionists should not be able to veto that.

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UNCLASSIFIED

FM DUBLIN

TO DESKBY 131200Z FCO

TELNO 339

OF 130952Z OCTOBER 93

INFO IMMEDIATE NIO(L), NIO(B), WASHINGTON, BIS NEW YORK

OUR TELNO 333: ERROR

NORTHERN IRELAND: IRISH GOVERNMENT REACTIONS TO THE HUME/ADAMS TALKS

PLEASE INSERT CORRECTED PARA 5:-

5. MUCH PUBLICITY HAS BEEN GIVEN HERE TO A PRESS CONFERENCE BY GERRY ADAMS IN DUBLIN YESTERDAY EVENING. HE IS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID THAT 'A DECLARATION FROM THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT THAT THE IRISH PEOPLE AS A WHOLE HAD THE RIGHT TO A NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION COULD BE THE PRICE OF A FULL CESSATION OF IRA VIOLENCE'. UNIONISTS 'COULD NOT BE GIVEN A VETO .... WE HAVE TO BRING ON BOARD THEIR FEARS WHETHER REAL, AND THEY ARE REAL IN SOME CASES, OR IMAGINARY. THE UNIONISTS POSITION CANNOT BE DIVORCED FROM THE UNION. WHAT WE HAVE GOT TO DO IS TO PERSUADE THE UNIONISTS THAT THEIR FUTURE LIES WITH THIS ISLAND' . 'WE MUST ..... BRING ABOUT A DEMILITARISATION OF THE SITUATION ' .

BLATHERWICK

YYYY

DISTRIBUTION 15

ADVANCE 15

.NORTHERN IRELAND NIO(L)//MR CHILCOT

PS NIO(L)//PS/S OF S

PS/PUS NIO(L)//PS/LORD ARRAN

RID//HD NIO(L)//MR THOMAS

INFO D//HD NIO(L)//MR BELL

NEWS D//HD NIO(L)//MR COOKE SIL

CAOFF//PS/SEC OF THE CABINET RESIDENT CLERK

CAOFF// MISS NEVILLE JONES