that had been the standard applied in south africa there never would have been peace there in north ireland there never would have been peace there. in north suppose any a too. it takes patients. persistence and willingness to go back again and again and again. to not take the first, no as a final, no. to not take the 50th no or the 100th no. we're patient and determined and we believe there's a basis for concludeing a peace agreement in the region and that's what we're going to pursue. >> senator, to you understand you expect them to enter these talks without pre-conditions? >> both the united states and the quartet have said we believe there should be direct talks without pre conditions and we also have said many times that we think that these talks should be conducted in a positive atmosphere in which the parties reframe from taking any steps that are not conducive to making progress in the discussions that the ne go organizations seriously and in good faith in all of the respects, we think there is a basis for making progress. >> it won't be based on the quartet statement of march 19th?

our colleagues were certainly open to discussing with us the lessons learned from north ireland and using them to inform thinking of how to approach this. the parallels are not precise at all, but i think it gave costs and the police and advantage that a lot of these tricky issues been resolved over the 30 years of our worst terrorism. >> thank you. i would like to ask any lessons from the iraq years. >> just one little point of details arising from your conversation. did i understand you to say that you did not have a practice of regular scheduled bilateral one on one meetings with mr. blair? at all? >> there was not a regular schedule of them. i could have passed for one, but i did see him regularly. the regular meetings in the cabinets. >> he did not have the sort of meeting in which you could sit down with him and run through the things that might be on your mind and make sure that these were directly input to him and have a conversation about that? >> the main conversations were at least once a week with the home secretary. that was a frequency much more than a my predecessors. a lot

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