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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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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 11 Jan 1988, 12:00
On January 11th 1988, Gerry Adams

People: Gerry Adams
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)

People: John Hume Gerry Adams
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Irish Government, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: British Government, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Prime Minister-Taoiseach Meetings, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Anglo-Irish Liaison Group, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Butler-Nally Meetings, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Informal British-Irish Bilaterals, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference: Plenary Sessions, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Irish-Hume Bilaterals, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Irish-Magee Bilaterals, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 23 Apr 1993, 12:00
Hume/Adams Statement (23 April 1993)

People: John Hume Gerry Adams
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume/Adams Report to Dublin

People: John Hume Gerry Adams
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
We agreed to forward a report on the position reached to date to Dublin for consideration.
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: British-Molyneaux Bilaterals, Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 11 Jul 1988, 12:01
Gerry Adams and John Hume meet in private.
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: SDLP, Date: 11 Jul 1988, 12:00
SDLP Response to Questions Raised in Discussions and in Previous Sinn Fein Papers

People: John Hume
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 11 Jul 1988, 12:01
SDLP Response to Questions Raised in Discussions and in Previous Sinn Fein Papers
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 11 Jul 1988, 12:01
Unusually, the SDLP appears momentarily to move towards support for the case for national self-determination: "We are accepting the Sinn Féin statement that it is the Irish people as a whole who have the right [to" self-determination] and the Irish...

People: John Hume
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 11 Jul 1988, 12:01
The SDLP repeats that a precondition for the conference convened by the Dublin government which it mooted in its first paper would be that the IRA would have ceased its campaign.

People: John Hume
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 14 Aug 1988, 12:00
Letter of Review from Gerry Adams to John Hume on 14 August 1988
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: SDLP, Date: 14 Aug 1988, 12:00
Letter of Review from Gerry Adams to John Hume on 14 August 1988
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 22 Aug 1988, 12:00
John Hume makes an oral response.

People: John Hume Gerry Adams
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Sinn Féin, Date: 08 Nov 1990, 12:00
Peter Brooke's Whitbread Speech
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: Hume-Adams, Date: 11 Jan 1988, 12:00
and John Hume met for several hours.

People: John Hume
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Committee: British Government, Date: 07 Nov 1990, 12:00
[Editors' Note: Sinn Féin's document 'Setting the Record Straight' alleges that a member of the British government who was about to retire made contact with Martin McGuinness and provided an advance copy of the Whitbread speech. This appears to have...