(9 Dec 1996) T/I: 10:54:53
British Prime Minister John Major and Irish premier John Bruton met in London on Monday (9/12) to try and revive the Northern Irish peace process.
After their meeting at Major's Downing Street office, the two leaders stressed the importance of a renewed IRA ceasefire.
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LONDON, UK, 9/12
WS Prime minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister John Bruton leave No. 10 Downing Street, go to microphones
Cutaway press.
SOT, MAJOR: "We are united in wishing to see a credible cease fire and we are united also provided we can get a credible and verifiable cease-fire in seeing Sinn Fein join the talks and making them inclusive in due course. Of course they would have to join the talks in accordance with the ground rules that were established some months ago. We both wish those talks to succeed, but we recognise that if they are to succeed they must be carried out on a basis that will require all the participants to remain at the table so that we can credibly examine the issues that still lie before us in Northern Ireland."
SOT, BRUTON: "As the prime minister said, we avail of this opportunity which arose primarily from an EU related visit to review our joint work in regard to Northern Ireland. We have two objectives in common, firstly both of us - both governments - are seeking a truly inclusive process of negotiations involving all of the parties, all of the elected representatives. Secondly we are all working for an unequivocal restoration of the IRA ceasefire at the earliest possible moment. Both of these conditions are necessary for any durable and freely negotiated agreement to be reached which would be fair and acceptable to all. Violence is inimicable to the reaching of a freely agreed solution.
Obviously the problems we are dealing with are complex and long-standing but the two governments are working together to solve those problems on the basis of the firm foundation fo the communique the prime minister and I agreed here on the 28th February of this year and also the ground rules we agreed between our two governments for the all-party talks relating particularly as far as an IRA ceasefire is concerned to paragraphs 8 and 9 which determine eligibility as far as Sinn Fein is concerned to participation in the talks."
WS Major, Bruton
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