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Record of an opening plenary meeting on 1 October 1996 at 15.12 (OIC/PS16)

Writing Peace: George J. Mitchell Collection

This is the draft summary record of an opening plenary session on Tuesday 1 October 1996 at 15.12. The PUP was absent. The two governments made their submissions on their joint proposals on the agenda. The Irish Government suggested this was structured on the Mitchell report. The DUP was concerned that discussion of an agenda preceded decommissioning. The UUP agreed. The SDLP thought its proposals were flexible, since they allowed for the agenda to be altered by any issues that arose during the decommissioning debate. The DUP thought the governments had adopted the SDLP proposals. Labour thought the governments should get on with decommissioning. The DUP thought the Irish Government knew where PIRA weaponry was being hidden in the Republic. The Irish Government did not agree and the British Government supported them. The UUP did not support a subcommittee on decommissioning. The British Government agreed to reduce to writing a proposal to allow parties to circulate papers on the agenda before discussion of decommissioning.

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Subseries 2 (M202.7.2) Commission Documents (1995-1998), Series 7 (M202.7) Northern Ireland Records (1995-2008), George J. Mitchell Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine, digitized by the Quill Project at https://quillproject.net/resource_collections/125.