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  1. Overview: Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
  2. Full Record: Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
  3. Committee:Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference: Plenary Sessions
  4. Friday, 10 September 1993, at 12:00

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 Intergovernmental Conference: Plenary Sessions

The Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference was a consultative body established under the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) to promote cross-border cooperation. It was made up of officials from the governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and had a permanent secretariat based in Maryfield.

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Session 17877: 1993-09-10 12:00:02

[Exact time unknown] A meeting of the Anglo-Irish Conference was held where the Liaison Group was mandated to produce a paper with a constitutional component formulating a joint assessment of what might be acceptable to all participants in order to achieve the objectives of the process and secure peace.

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  • Resolution to Mandate the Liaison Group to Create a Joint Framework Document (e990036)

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Meeting of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference – 10 September 1993 - (file)

Photocopied summary note [by David Donoghue] of a meeting of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference [held in London] on 10 September 1993. The Secretary of State proposes that the Liaison Group work on a "'joint framework statement' with a substantial constitutional component". [The British Government intended to use this to develop suitable language for a future draft of the Joint Declaration.]

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