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<text>
<title>
Northern Ireland Talks Brought to a Halt
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service, July 3, 1991
United Kingdom: Northern Ireland Talks 'Brought to a Halt'
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<p>[Report by Deric Henderson. London PRESS ASSOCIATION in English
1020 GMT 3 Jul 91]
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<p> [Text] The Northern Ireland talks process ended in Belfast
today. Discussion between the main political parties on the
province's future government were brought to a halt by Northern
Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke. All sides agreed it would be
difficult to make further progress towards specific proposals
in the remaining time set aside for the negotiations. Mr.
Brooke said the talks should accordingly be brought to an end.
A Northern Ireland Office statement said: "The Secretary of
State and the party leaders agreed that the talks had been
valuable and had produced genuine dialogue."
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<p> "The Secretary of State made clear his own wish in due
course to explore the possibility of finding terms on which
fresh discussions could be held." Mr. Brooke--who is expected
to make a formal announcement at Westminster this afternoon--clearly believes his troubled initiative might be revived
sometime in the future, either in the autumn or after the next
general election. The Northern Ireland Office announcement
followed a brief meeting at Stormont this morning between Mr.
Brooke and the Unionist leaders James Molyneaux and the Rev. Ian
Paisley, and Mr. John Hume, leader of the nationalist SDLP
[Social Democratic and Labor Party], and Dr. John Alderdice,
leader of the non-sectarian Alliance Party.
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