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These papers were digitized by Dr Shelley Deane, Annabel Harris, Isha Pareek, Antoine Yenk, Ruth Murray and Eleanor Williams. We are very grateful to the library and archives staff at Bowdoin College for all their kindness and help in assembling this material, particularly Kat Stefko and Anne Sauer.
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{IRISH DRAFT} {COPY 6}
(B) BRITISH - IRISH INTERGOVERNMENTAL COUNCIL ^2
1. New British-Irish Agreement to establish standing British-Irish Intergovernmental Council, bringing together the British and Irish Governments, to promote cooperation at all levels between the two Governments. The Council to comprise British and Irish Governments, represented by appropriate Ministers. To meet, as required, at Summit level (ie British Prime Minister and Taoiseach).
2. Within this framework\, an Intergovernmental Conference, concerned solely with Northern Ireland and with relations within the island of Ireland. Conference to provide a continuing institutional expression of the British Government's recognition £ of the Irish Government's concern and role in relation to Northern Ireland.
3. Meetings to be co-chaired by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Other Ministers to attend as appropriate on the invitation of the co-chairs. Meetings to be regular and frequent and at request of either side.
4. Intergovernmental Conference to enable the two Governments to; (i) discuss non-devolved Northern Ireland matters, on which the Irish Government may put forward views and proposals; (ii) intensify cooperation between them on the all-island or cross-border aspects of non-devolved matters, (matters to be transferred between the remits of the Conference and the North/South Ministerial Council, depending on the extent of the matters devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly);
5. The Conference in particular to address the areas of security\, rights\, justice\, prisons and policing. Cooperation within the framework of the Conference to include facilitation of cooperation in security matters between North and South.
6. The Conference also to enable the two Governments (i) jointly to keep under review the workings of the overall agreement reached in the multiparty negotiations and to promote and support the fair and effective operation of all of its provisions. Conference could consider any proposal for action in response to any breach of the new agreement, while responsibility for any action would remain with each Government in its jurisdiction; (ii) to agree an annual report on the workings of the Agreement, and to undertake a formal published review [three] years after the Agreement comes into effect.
7. Devolved Northern Ireland issues normally to be excluded from discussion\, save in connection with purposes set out in paragraph 6 above.
8. All decisions by agreement between both Governments. The Governments to make determined efforts to resolve disagreements between them. No derogation from sovereignty of either Government.
9. The Northern Ireland Administration to be given advance notice of what is to be discussed at the Conference\, and to be invited to express views to both Governments in advance. At the invitation of the Governments\, to make presentations to the Conference. Open to the two Governments\, in consultation with the Northern Ireland Administration\, to propose ways in which the latter's involvement could over time be enhanced.
10. Conference to be supported by a standing joint secretariat of officials of the British and Irish Governments.
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This document is an early Irish draft of a section on the British/Irish Intergovernmental Council. It lays out the council's remit as being mainly concerned with matters of security and policing and justice. It specifies that the council would be supported by a permanent secretariat and provides for the council to give advance notice of its topics to, and receive presentations from, the Northern Ireland Administration.
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The Quill Project has received one-time, non-exclusive use of the papers in this collection from Bowdoin College Library to make them available online as part of Writing Peace.
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.