UK News 03-11-1999 Mitchell Peace Review On Hold who: US senator George Mitchell what: Puts inter-party talks on hold when: Yesterday snippet: "The Northern Ireland peace process was in downbeat mood yesterday as the inter-party talks which have been dragging on for more than eight weeks were put on hold by the former US senator George Mitchell," reports this morning`s Independent. "Mr Mitchell announced that he would speak to Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Bertie Ahern, the Irish Prime Minister, before bringing the parties together again on Monday. He would have a report ready shortly after this, he said." Mr Mitchell said that the talks had been productive and that the parties he had been talking to "want devolution and they want decommissioning." "Hopes for a deal rest on a formula which would allow an executive to be set up," reports the BBC, "and a decommissioning timetable established in a number of interlocking, confidence-building steps." [... more]

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