This document contains a letter from John Holmes, Private Secretary to Prime Minister John Major, to Nancy Soderberg, US Deputy National Security Advisor, dated 9 July 1996. In the letter, Holmes provided Soderberg with further details about John Hume's (leader of the SDLP) approach to the Prime Minister from the previous week, in which he recounted his discussions with Gerry Adams (leader of Sinn Féin). According to Hume, Adams had stated that PIRA would be willing to declare a ceasefire if the British Government released a statement which affirmed that the negotiations would be serious, comprehensive and inclusive, and that decommissioning would take place during the negotiations rather than in advance of it. The statement would also have to make reference to confidence-building measures. Holmes also wrote that Hume had passed a letter from Adams addressed to the Prime Minister, which Hume also attached to this note. The enclosed letter from Gerry Adams, as well as another letter from Major to Hume that Holmes had attached to this note, are not enclosed with this document, but are present elsewhere in the box.
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