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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:Irish Government
  4. Monday, 16 December 1991, 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 29381: 1991-12-16 12:00:00

[Editorial session] The editors have created this session to model JD2. We do not yet have evidence of exactly on what date or by whom it was created, but documents from the National Archives show that it was shown to Robin Butler by Dermot Nally for the first time on 16 December 1991. Mallie and McKittrick have written that it was drafted in October 1991, but Coakley and Todd, like the editors, can only date it to c. December 1991. In the absence of a citation for Mallie and McKittrick's dating, we have created it on the day it was shown to Robin Butler.

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Charles Haughey, Martin Mansergh (2 total)

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Enclosure: Joint Declaration (JD2) with Robin Butler's Handwritten Annotations - (link)

This was the second draft of the Joint Declaration prepared by John Hume and the Irish Government, and was handed to the British Government by Dermot Nally. Includes illegible annotations from Robin Butler recording Irish comments from a previous Butler/Nally meeting. Highlighted.

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