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.
Source material
John Alderdice Collection
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Committee: Informal British-Irish Bilaterals
12. [...] We did, however, expect to receive a response to our talks paper within the next few days: the delay was holding up talks. It was very difficult to read in Dublin papers that the British were dragging their feet when in fact we had been... Thursday November 1993