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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 Good Friday Agreement and provide a framework for its ratification.

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A guide to finding information in committee timelines, about particular documents, or about particular individuals

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If you are looking for a particular phrase within the written texts considered by this negotiation, you can search for moments when this phrase was introduced for consideration or decided upon. This is often the most helpful starting-point for legal research.

Alternatively, you may wish to search the descriptions of each event within this negotiation. This will not search for phrases under consideration, but rather the text of the various minutes upon which this edition of the negotiation is based.

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You can view a list of all committee sessions.

To search the minutes of a particular committee it is easiest to use the committee visualization pages (from here you can further drill down to individual sessions)

Irish Government British Government Prime Minister-Taoiseach Meetings Anglo-Irish Liaison Group Butler-Nally Meetings Informal British-Irish Bilaterals Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference: Plenary Sessions British-Hume Bilaterals Irish-Hume Bilaterals

Hume-Adams Irish-Magee Bilaterals Irish-Eames Bilaterals British-Molyneaux Bilaterals British-Reid Bilaterals Sinn Féin SDLP Reid-Ó Fiaich-Murray Irish-Reid Bilaterals

Reid-Hume Bilaterals Reid-Adams Bilaterals Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference: Tête-à-Tête Meetings British-Maze Chaplains British-Eames Bilaterals Maze Chaplains Archbishop Eames Eames-Molyneaux Bilaterals Magee-Loyalist Bilaterals

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Document list view

You can discover the complete list of documents considered by the negotiation (and find where they were introduced) on The Convention Document Map.

If you are interested only in the documents as they appeared at the end of the negotiation (with any rejected documents removed), you can use the The Convention Current Document Library.

Individual & Delegation view

You can browse the contributions by individuals or delegations to this negotiation using the relevant visualization

Delegations

British Government Catholic Clergy Irish Government

Loyalist Paramiliaties Protestant Clergy SDLP

Sinn Féin UUP

Individuals

Gerry Adams Bertie Ahern Alex Allan Michael Ancram David Andrews Graham Archer Kenneth Baker Tom Barrington Tony Beeton Peter Bell David Blatherwick John Blelloch Roger Bootle-Wilbraham Peter Brooke David Brooker Joseph Brosnan John Bruton Ian Burns Robin Butler Mr Caine Mr Carr George Cassidy John Chilcot NIO Civil Servants Ken Clarke Gerry Collins Mrs Collins David Cooke Austin Currie Tim Dalton Cahal Daly Jim Daniell Timothy Daunt John Deverell John Dew Marcus Dodds David Donoghue Noel Dorr

Archbishop Robin Eames Noel Fahey Sean Farren David Fell Fergus Finlay William Fittall Pádraig Flynn Dermot Gallagher Tristan Garel-Jones Máire Geoghegan-Quinn David Gillmore Christopher Glyn-Jones Richard Gozney Tom Hartley Charles Haughey Pat Hennessy Michael Howard John Hume Douglas Hurd Tom King David Kyle Stephen Leach Bryony Lodge Nicholas Lyell Roderic Lyne Chris Maccabe Roy Magee John Major Seamus Mallon Martin Mansergh Jonathan Margetts Brian Mawhinney Peter May Patrick Mayhew John McConnell Martin McGuinness David McIlroy

Mitchel McLaughlin Sean McManus Danny McNeill R. O. Miles Jim Molyneaux Rory Montgomery Danny Morrison Father John Murphy Reverend Will Murphy Frank Murray Raymond Murray Dermot Nally A T O'Donnell Declan O'Donovan Anthony Pawson Christopher Prentice Mr S Quinn Alec Reid British Government Representative Irish Government Representative Loyalist Representative Albert Reynolds Stephen Rickard Malcolm Rifkind (Robert) John Sawers Joseph Small Dick Spring A W Stephens Jonathan Stephens Paddy Teahon Quentin Thomas Stephen Wall David Watkins Martin Williams Tomás Ó Fiaich C Ó hUiginn Seán Ó hUiginn

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