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  1. Overview: Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
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  3. Committee:Hume-Adams
  4. Saturday, 10 April 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.

Hume-Adams

This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between John Hume and Gerry Adams, along with the bilateral meetings which took place between the SDLP and Sinn Féin.

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Session 21216: 1993-04-10 12:00:00

[Exact time unknown] John Hume and Gerry Adams met.

Membership (at session start):

Gerry Adams, John Hume (2 total)

Representing 2 delegations:

SDLP, Sinn Féin

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Extract from a Joint Statement by John Hume and Gerry Adams Reprinted in the Irish Times - (file)

This statement by Hume and Adams responds to media coverage of a meeting betwen the pair on 10th April 1993. It outlines the purpose of that meeting and what was discussed. They key points include: a shared commitment to lasting peace, an assertion that they negotiated as leaders of their parties rather than intermediaries within the British/Irish framework, a commitment to strive for a new agreement on the issue of self-determination that accounts for the diversity of views on the matter (not least between the SDLP and Sinn Féin). Some lines are obscured in the scan but have been rewritten in the margins by hand.

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