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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)

WORK IN PROGRESS - This project is still under development. It models a 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.

Guided Research Tools

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

Help with searching

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.

Committee view

You can view a list of all committee sessions or you can view committee sessions scheduled for the future.

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

If you already know the committee session and date you want, find it in the Full Record View Full Record or type the date into the search box below:

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.