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Civil servants worried it could dissuade some from attending and pose a security risk.
An October 1997 note on the affair was published by the Public Record Office for Northern Ireland as part of the annual release of Government archives.
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PN Bell
Senior NIO official PN Bell wrote: “Now that Sinn Fein are, following the restoration of their ceasefire and full membership of the talks, a constitutional party, I can see no justification for not extending an invitation which, almost certainly, they will accept.”
The Maryfield Secretariat near Belfast was established as part of the Anglo-Irish Agreement which instituted closer north/south cooperation.