The Good.friday Agreement

On 10 April 1998, the so-called Good Friday Agreement (or Belfast Agreement) was signed. This agreement helped end a period of conflict in the region known as Troubles. The two main political parties in the deal were the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) led by David Trimble and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) led by John Hume. The two Heads of State and Government jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. The other parties involved in the deal were Sinn Féin, the Alliance Party and the Progressive Unionist Party. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which later became the largest Unionist party, did not support the deal. She left the talks when Sinn Féin and the loyalist parties joined because republican and loyalist paramilitary weapons had not been downgraded. 1. The Participants note that the development of a peaceful environment on the basis of this Agreement can and should mean the normalization of security arrangements and practices. Over the past two decades, the peace process has finally managed to overcome the violence of the unrest. Since the conclusion of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, it has been necessary to pursue a number of successive political and legal agreements in order to consolidate the peace settlement envisaged in the GFA.

Under the proposed agreement, the government has published a number of financial and other commitments, as has the UK government. The Irish government`s commitments include working with the North-South Council of Ministers to support projects that benefit people across the island, including better connectivity, north and south and investment in the North West region and border communities. The British Government is virtually out of the equation, and neither the British Parliament nor the British people have the right under this agreement to impede the achievement of Irish unity if it had the consent of the peoples of the North and the South. Our nation is and remains a nation with 32 counties. Antrim and Down are and will remain as much a part of Ireland as any county in the south. [20] In 2004, negotiations took place between the two governments, the DUP and Sinn Féin, on an agreement to restore the institutions. These talks failed, but a document published by governments detailing changes to the Belfast Agreement became known as the “Global Agreement”. However, on 26 September 2005, it was announced that the Provisional Irish Republican Army had completely decommissioned and “decommissioned” its arsenal. Nevertheless, many trade unionists, in particular the DUP, remained sceptical. Of the loyalist paramilitaries, only the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) had decommissioned weapons.

[21] Further negotiations took place in October 2006 for the St Andrews Agreement. Agreement on administrative support to the Citizens` Forum and establishment of guidelines for the selection of representatives of the Citizens` Forum. 3. All participants therefore reaffirm their commitment to the complete disarmament of all paramilitary organizations. They also reaffirm their intention to continue to cooperate constructively and in good faith with the Independent Commission and to use their possible influence to achieve the dismantling of all paramilitary weapons within two years of the approval of the Agreement by referendum in the north and south of the Agreement and in the context of the implementation of the general regime. The agreement was reached after many years of complex discussions, proposals and compromises. Many people have made important contributions. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern were at the time leaders of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It was chaired by US Special Envoy George Mitchell. [3] 1. The participants recall their approval in the 24th. In September 1997, the procedural proposal adopted that “the resolution of the issue of dismantling is an indispensable element of the negotiation process” and also recalls the provisions of paragraph 25 of part 1.

Northern Ireland`s political parties in favour of the agreement were also invited to consider the creation of an independent consultation forum representing civil society with members with expertise in social, cultural, economic and other issues, appointed by both administrations. A framework for the North-South Consultation Forum was agreed in 2002 and in 2006 the Northern Ireland Executive agreed to support its establishment. After the peace deal, the Loyalist Volunteer Force – a Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland – announced a “clear” ceasefire ahead of the referendum and campaigned for a No. 2 after the referendum, which took place on September 22. In May 1998, the extremist republican group Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), a splinter faction of the IRA, detonated a bomb in the town of Omagh. 55 miles west of Belfast, August 15, 1998. . .