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

Memo from Robert Alston to Quentin Thomas Regarding Political Movement and PIRA Dated 30 August 1991

Friday, 30 August 1991

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According to this document, John Chilcot has indicated that the British Government should review its position on political movement and PIRA after Christmas, and that the coming elections will influence the political development process. It comments on the debates within PIRA and Sinn Féin regarding the pursuit of political over paramilitary means and on the alternative agenda of John Hume and Taoiseach Charles Haughey to bring PIRA into mainstream republican politics. It includes a list of action points for the coming months and a list of potential responses to John Hume's proposal, and also indicates that the British Government should produce work on ways to handle a Christmas ceasefire and initiate other de-escalation processes. The document includes some markings in pen.

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