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Queen Elizabeth II wrote to President Mary Robinson to tell her that she shared her distress at the plight of Somalia and its people.
Government officials were swamped with queries from Irish citizens in the 1980s and 90s asking if they could legally obtain a divorce during visits to foreign countries.
Northern Secretary Mo Mowlam was concerned that high-profile British, American and Irish politicians campaigning to promote the Good Friday Agreement in the North could have the opposite impact to that intended and might run the risk of antagonising some voters.
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State papers: An MP colleague also remarked that Mandelson’s tunnel vision was his greatest strength and his greatest weakness
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State papers: Newly-released files show how the signatories to the Belfast Agreement came to view it as the least worst option