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.
Quill platform ID: p18527.
Roderic Michael John Lyne; KBE 1999; CMG 1992; PC 2009.
Born 31 March 1948. FCO 1970; Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1993–96 (on secondment).
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Member of British Government —Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993).
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