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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: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.

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Session 17888: 1993-09-10 12:00:04

[Exact time unknown] The British proposal made to the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference was reported back as amended and agreed.

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)

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British Government

Imported Documents

  • Resolution to Mandate the Liaison Group to Create a Joint Framework Document (e990084) imports from Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference: Plenary Sessions,
    on Friday, 10 September 1993, at 12:00

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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.]

Meeting of the Nally-Butler Group – 10 September 1993 - (file)

Photocopied note by Nally of his meeting with Butler, on 10 September 1993. Also present at the meeting were Ó hUiginn, and Chilcot. The note is addressed to 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 Ó hUiginn of the same meeting, dated 13 September 1993.

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