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Briefing letter from Paul Wilkinson for a meeting between John Major, the PUP and the UDP on 22 July 1996

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

A letter from Paul Wilkinson, Private Secretary to John Wheeler, Security Minister in the Northern Ireland Office, to John Holmes, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. The letter contains objectives, background information, and briefing on pertinent issues for a meeting between John Major, British Prime Minister, and members of the PUP [Progressive Unionist Party] and UDP [Ulster Democratic Party]. The topics covered are the importance of the loyalist ceasefire, loyalist paramiliatry violence, the state of the multi-party negotiations, and PUP and UDP concerns about prisoners. The letter is dated 22 July 1996, and parts of the text have been highlighted.

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64
Jul
22
1996
PREM 19/5714
79 1996 - 1996
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The National Archives of the UK (TNA), digitized by the Quill Project at https://quillproject.net/resource_collections/351/.