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.
This committee has been created to model internal British Government documents and meetings.
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[Editors' note: This session has been created to model the amendments in John Major's opening statement for the Dublin press conference on 4 December 1991, following the plenary meeting between Major and Charles Haughey. Though the drafts are all undated, the nature of the revisions suggests they were made post the meeting, thus provisionally dated as 4 December 1991.]
Membership (at session start):
David Blatherwick, John Blelloch, Peter Brooke, Ian Burns, Jim Daniell, John Deverell, Richard Gozney, Jonathan Margetts, John McConnell, Danny McNeill, R. O. Miles, A W Stephens, Jonathan Stephens, Stephen Wall (14 total)
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