Little Progress in Northern Ireland Talks
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HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland — The premiers of Britain and Ireland proclaimed shared hopes but little progress Thursday after a daylong effort to narrow key arguments that continue to undermine Northern Ireland’s 3-year-old peace pact.
Talks with local parties at Hillsborough Castle, southwest of Belfast, the provincial capital, went on for 13 hours, apparently unhelped by an Irish Republican Army statement earlier promising a resumption of talks with a disarmament panel.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern said they welcomed the IRA step.
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