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Interviews with David Trimble, Ian Paisley, Martin Mulholland and Karen Elliott for ITN on 30 June 1999

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Video interviews with David Trimble (designate First Minister of Northern Ireland), Ian Paisley (leader of the DUP) and Martin Mulholland and Karen Elliott (residents of Belfast) for ITN on 26 June 1999. The Hillsborough Declaration from the British and Irish governments on 1 April created a framework for progress towards power-sharing government in Northern Ireland and invested the IICD with responsibility for scheduling IRA decommissioning. However, disagreement continued among Northern Ireland political parties over the timing of IRA decommissioning. Ahead of intensive multi-party talks at Stormont from 28 June Trimble, Paisley, Mulholland and Elliott discuss the likelihood of coming to agreement by the initial 30 June deadline.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 26 June 1999

Name of First Interviewee: David Trimble

Name of Second Interviewee: Ian Paisley

Name of Third Interviewee: Martin Mulholland, Karen Elliott

Role at time of Interview: David Trimble (designate First Minister of Northern Ireland), Ian Paisley (leader of the DUP), Martin Mulholland and Karen Elliott (residents of Belfast)

Purpose: News

Media: Audiovisual

Copyright: ©2013 ITN All rights reserved

Link: Watch the video

Programme/Book/Article: ITN

Time Period covered: 1998-1999

Key Individuals: David Trimble, Ian Paisley, Martin Mulholland, Karen Elliott

Key Words: UUP, Sinn Fein, IRA, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, ceasefire, decommissioning, power-sharing, loyalist paramilitary, community relations

 

 

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