... envoy to Northern Ireland. Although this Resolution initially failed, the issue of a special envoy to Northern Ireland was discussed when President Clinton met the Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds for the first time on St Patrick's Day 1993. (Resolution 49, 103rd congress http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c103:H.CON.RES.49:) Clinton deferred appointing a special envoy, apparently due to the fact that ... the request, while back in Northern Ireland John Hume made no objection to the request. On the 21st of January 1994 Kennedy Smith sent a cable to Washington in which she recommende...

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