The Forum for Political Dialogue met between 1996 and 1998 in Belfast as part of the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement.
The Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiation, etc) Act 1996 provided for a Forum constituted by delegates elected in elections under the same Act to consider and examine issues relevant to promoting dialogue and understanding within Northern Ireland. The Forum met at the Interpoint Centre, York Street, Belfast from 14 June 1996 to 24 April 1998.
To see the full record of a committee, click on the corresponding committee on the map below.
Talks, Potato Industry, Children with Special Educational Needs: Summer Schemes, Political Negotiations/Continuing Violence, Business
The Northern Ireland Forum regrets that continuing violence and the threat of violence has inhibited the progress of free and fair negotiations at the Stormont talks; recognizes that Sinn Fein/IRA are irredeemably committed to a strategy of violence; and calls upon theany present and anyor future Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to direct resumed orinitiate futuresh negotiations towards the achievement ofdirected to a democratic settlement within the United Kingdom; and among, recognizing that Sinn Fein/IRA are irrevocably wedded to violence, calls for such fresh negotiations to be only between those dedicated exclusively to democratic politics and procedures.