The secret meetings were revealed by Rev Harold Good in a new book, In Good Time.
A Democratic Unionist Party MP has said he attended secret meetings with Sinn Féin at a time when negotiations with the party were against DUP policy.
He said that while his party's position was that the negotiations should not be attended with Sinn Féin at the time, that the meetings did not constitute negotiations.on the BBC's Talkback programme He said that the purpose of these meetings was "to assess whether there was any real intent on the other side to come to an agreement"."We made it clear to Sinn Féin we were not prepared to sit in government with them while they were still engaged in paramilitary activity.
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