Quill
  1. Overview: Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
  2. Full Record: Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
  3. Committee:British Government
  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.

British Government

This committee has been created to model internal British Government documents and meetings.

Visualize

To see the full record of a committee, click on the corresponding committee on the map below.

Session 17885: 1993-09-10 12:00:00

[Exact time unknown] The British Government made connected proposals to the Anglo-Irish Conference and the Butler/Nally group which were designed to allow them to refine the language of JD6 in the context of Strand 3 of the Talks, whilst also producing a Framework Paper which would indicate to the Unionists they had taken on board their request for a Heads of Agreement document. We do not currently have an internal record of these proposals, so we have created them on the day they were put to the Irish delegations.

Membership (at session start):

Michael Ancram, Kenneth Baker, Tony Beeton, David Blatherwick, John Blelloch, Ian Burns, Robin Butler, John Chilcot, David Cooke, Jim Daniell, Timothy Daunt, John Deverell, William Fittall, David Gillmore, Christopher Glyn-Jones, Richard Gozney, Douglas Hurd, Roderic Lyne, John Major, Jonathan Margetts, Peter May, Patrick Mayhew, John McConnell, David McIlroy , Danny McNeill, R. O. Miles, Anthony Pawson, Christopher Prentice , Stephen Rickard, A W Stephens, Jonathan Stephens, Quentin Thomas, Stephen Wall (33 total)

Representing 1 delegations:

British Government

Imported Documents

Imported Amendments

Exported Documents

  • Resolution to Mandate the Liaison Group to Create a Joint Framework Document (e990030)
    • Imported by 'Resolution to Mandate the Liaison Group to Create a Joint Framework Document' (e990036) in Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference: Plenary Sessions,
      on Friday, 10 September 1993, at 12:00
  • Resolution to Use the Language from the Joint Framework Document to Solve Paragraph 4 (e990032)
    • Imported by 'Resolution to Use the Language from the Joint Framework Document to Solve Paragraph 4' (e990054) in Butler-Nally Meetings,
      on Friday, 10 September 1993, at 12:00

Exported Amendments

Resources (2):

Resource Collections (0):

None

Resource Items (2):

Meeting of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference on 10 September 1993 - (link)

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.]

Meeting of the Nally/Butler Group on 10 September 1993 - (link)

Photocopied note by Dermot Nally of his meeting with Robin Butler, on 10 September 1993. Also present at the meeting were Seán Ó hUiginn, and John Chilcot. The note is addressed to Albert Reynolds and marked “secret and personal”. Items discussed include the wording of the draft Joint Declaration; the nature of a referendum to follow the outcome of the present process; and a British Government proposal for the Liaison Group to be mandated to draw up a paper on the position of the two Governments which could be used to develop Joint Declaration language. Further includes a full report by Seán Ó hUiginn of the same meeting, dated 13 September 1993.

Summary of events in this session:

Individuals:

0 0 0 0

List of people joining the committee

List of people leaving the committee

List of people elected to a position

Documents:

0 0 0

List of proposals created

List of proposals amended

List of proposals copied

List of proposals imported

List of proposals to be voted on

List of proposals debated

Decisions:

List of proposals adopted

List of proposals rejected

List of proposals dropped

List of proposals referred

List of postpone debate voted on

List of other proposals voted on

Procedure:

List of procedural motion

List of motions debated

View event descriptions

Events (4)

Previous

session

Next

session

Icon key

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

A new document introduced

An amendment proposed

A document introduced from another committee

A revision of another document begun

Amendment imported from another committee

Proposal Debated

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone debate on a proposal

Procedural motion introduced

Procedural Motion Debated

Procedural motion with sub-decisions