Ire-Peace: Full-Scale Talks Next Tues


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30 September 1997

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FULL SCALE TALKS NEXT TUESDAY
 09/30/97 12:40 EST

 Sinn Fein, Ulster Unionists and the other parties at the Stormont
 talks on the future of Northern Ireland have agreed that full-scale
 negotiations will begin next Tuesday. The talks will address all
 three strands of the talks process. The agreement of the Business
 Committee came more quickly than expected.

 Representatives of all the parties were in the same room, but spoke
 through the chairman, Canadian General John de Chastelain. On Tuesday
 morning, talks will begin on Strand One, the internal government of
 Northern Ireland. In the afternoon, negotiations will start on
 North-South relations. Discussions on relations between the Irish and
 British governments will start in the evening.

 The British government already considers the talks process under way,
 but it said in a statement that next Tuesday they will be opened
 formally. There is speculation that both Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and
 British Prime Minister Tony Blair will attend the first session.
 
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