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Interview with Jeffrey Donaldson by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 21 May 2000

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Transcript of an interview with Jeffrey Donaldson, UUP MP for Lagan Valley, by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 21 May 2000. On 6 May the Provisional IRA issued a statement that it was ready to begin a process of completely and verifiably putting its arms beyond use. This was met with both cautious optimism and scepticism within unionism. Donaldson discusses the unsatisfactory proposal of a return to devolved government in Northern Ireland without prior decommissioning. Power was restored to the Northern Executive on 29 May two days after the UUP supported David Trimble's decision to return to government without initial decommissioning. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly BBC current affairs programme.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 21 May 2000

Name of First Interviewee: Jeffrey Donaldson

Role at time of Interview: UUP MP for Lagan Valley

Interviewer: David Frost

Purpose: News

Media: Transcript

Copyright: © BBC Breakfast with Frost

Link: Read the transcript

Programme/Book/Article: BBC Breakfast with Frost

Time Period covered: 2000

Key Individuals: Jeffrey Donaldson, David Trimble, John de Chastelain, Cyril Ramaphosa, Martti Ahtisaari, Sean Kelly, Martin McGuinness

Key Words: UUP, Sinn Féin, IRA, decommissioning, suspension of devolution, demilitarisation, partition, prisoner, paramilitary

 

 

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