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Users with appropriate permission can use this page to add events to the end of a committee's timeline or create a new session. In this way, this page
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Session 21042: 1993-10-21 10:20:00

The Anglo-Irish Liaison Group met to continue their discussion of the Framework Document. The Irish delegation had produced a draft, but were unable to table it in the absence of ministerial approval. Having previously exhausted discussion on the first British draft, the meeting worked through a makeweight agenda and adjourned for lunch.

Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)

This project models the series of formal and informal negotiations which led to the publication, in December 1993, of a declaration issued jointly by the British and Irish Governments. The Joint Declaration was a critical policy document which paved the way for a ceasefire and the entry of Sinn Féin into formal talks. It also laid out a shared set of principles – including, crucially, self-determination for the people of Ireland subject to the consent of the people of Northern Ireland – which would come to underpin the Belfast Good Friday Agreement and provide a framework for its ratification.

Anglo-Irish Liaison Group

This group was set up as a sub-committee of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference. Its remit during this period was to produce a Framework Document which became entwined with the drafting of the Joint Declaration.

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