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Enclosure: Comment by Tony Beeton on Joint Declaration (JD8)

Writing Peace: The National Archives of the UK (TNA)

Commentary from Tony Beeton on draft 8 of the Joint Declaration to accompany the recommendations made in the speaking note. Difficulties surround Irish government's continued inclusion of a European element in paragraph 2, and the tilt towards seeing Ireland as an entity at the expense of the British dimension in paragraph 3. Paragraph 5 is read as a forward Irish position on consent, which acknowldges the Northern Irish right to self-determination. Paragraph 7 (about establishing an Irish Convention) is seen positively, aside from the implications of placing the convention under the authority of the Irish Constitution (in particualr articles 2 and 3). Also circulated to other NIO and FCO diplomats including Jonathan Stephens and David Cooke.

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29
1993
CJ 4/10647
26 1993 - 1993
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The National Archives of the UK (TNA), digitized by the Quill Project at https://quillproject.net/resource_collections/351/.

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