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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-Hume Bilaterals
  4. Wednesday, 05 December 1990, 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-Hume Bilaterals

This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between John Hume and the British government.

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Session 23130: 1990-12-05 12:00:00

[Exact time unknown] Hume met Brooke privately at Westminster to brief him on recent discussions with Gerry Adams, in particular Adams proposal to move away from an armed strategy.

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Record of a Conversation between John Hume and Peter Brooke Regarding Hume's Meeting with Gerry Adams on 5 December 1990 - (file)

This document provides a partial account of a conversation between John Hume and Peter Brooke on 5 December 1990, where Hume relayed his conversation with Gerry Adams on 28 November 1990. Hume and Adams talked about the impact of Brooke's Whitbread speech on the Provisional movement, the possibility of a PIRA ceasefire and Hume's proposal for a meeting between Hume, a senior British civil servant and two unnamed people with connections in PIRA/Sinn Féin.

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