The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) minister who voted to keep two convicted killers in the British army is due to meet the mother of the teenager shot dead by the soldiers.
John Spellar had ruled out meeting Jean McBride while she fought to have the soldiers who killed her son Peter in 1992 thrown out of the army, but he later made an offer to meet her.
The NIO said the meeting was due to take place on Monday.
Scots guardsmen James Fisher and Mark Wright were convicted of 18-year-old Peter McBride's murder in 1995 but were released from jail less than three years later and allowed to rejoin the army.
In 2000 Mr Spellar, then minister for armed forces, was part of an army board which ruled that Fisher and Wright could keep their jobs because of "exceptional circumstances" surrounding the murder.
However, just hours before Mr Spellar was unveiled as the newest NIO minister, Belfast's Court of Appeal ruled that there were no "exceptional reasons" for Wright and Fisher to keep their jobs but stopped short of ordering the army to dismiss them.
Human rights group, the Pat Finucane Centre, will accompany Mrs McBride during her meeting with the minister.
"I want to know when, not if, the men who murdered my son are to be expelled from the British army," Mrs McBride said.
A Pat Finucane Centre spokes-man said Mr Spellar should be forced to resign the equality, human rights and criminal justice portfolios in the NIO if he failed to deliver on the McBride case.
