Major Invites New Irish Leader to Talk
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DUBLIN, Ireland — British Prime Minister John Major stepped up his initiative on Northern Ireland by inviting Albert Reynolds, prime minister-elect of the Irish Republic, to visit the United Kingdom for talks later this year.
Northern Ireland’s Protestant and Catholic politicians have agreed to meet Major next week for the first security summit in 16 years to review a surge in sectarian killings in the British-ruled province.
Even the Irish Republican Army, the guerrilla group battling to oust Britain from Northern Ireland, sought to cool the situation with an appeal for calm and a warning to IRA renegades to refrain from reprisals.
Major invited the leaders of the four main Protestant and Catholic parties to the security summit at his London Downing Street office.
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