Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring and Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew, met in Dublin. Mayhew was then due to travel to the Northern Ireland capital Belfast for a meeting with Gerry Adams, president of the Irish Republican Army's political wing Sinn Fein.
The meetings are supposed to lay the groundwork for an Anglo-Irish summit in Britain on Wednesday at which new proposals to breathe life into the peace process are expected to be unveiled.
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