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Interview with George Mitchell by Peter Sisson for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 7 July 2002

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Transcript of an interview with George Mitchell, former United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, by Peter Sissons for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 7 July 2002. As community tensions mounted in Belfast in early 2002, Mitchell assesses the threat of republican and loyalist paramilitaries to the peace process. Later that day rioting erupted over the Drumcree parade in Belfast while on 21 July two Catholic and Protestant teenagers were killed in sectarian attacks in the city. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly BBC current affairs programme.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 7 July 2002

Name of First Interviewee: George Mitchell

Role at time of Interview: Former United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland

Interviewer: Peter Sissons

Purpose: News

Media: Transcript

Copyright: © BBC Breakfast with Frost

Link: Read the transcript

Programme/Book/Article: BBC Breakfast with Frost

Time Period covered: 2002

Key Individuals: George Mitchell

Key Words: 9/11 attacks, Middle East, Sinn Féin, IRA, UVF, criminality in Northern Ireland, need for perspective, progress, paramilitaries

 

 

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