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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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
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.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