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Sat 11 Nov 2009Edinburgh council base opposed by Hain
MOVES TO establish a permanent secretariat in Edinburgh for the British-Irish Council failed yesterday due to the opposition of the British government representative, secretary of state for Wales Peter Hain.
The council was set up under the Belfast Agreement of 1998 and comprises representatives from the British and Irish governments, the devolved institutions of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the British crown dependencies of the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey.
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