Video interviews with Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Jeffrey Donaldson, UUP MP for Lagan Valley, for ITN on 2 April 1999. The Hillsborough Declaration from the British and Irish governments one day earlier created a framework for progress towards power-sharing government in Northern Ireland and invested the IICD with responsibility for scheduling IRA decommissioning. Mowlam and Donaldson discuss the Hillsborough talks and the potential of the Declaration to progress the peace process.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 2 April 1999
Name of First Interviewee: Mo Mowlam
Name of Second Interviewee: Jeffrey Donaldson
Role at time of Interview: Mo Mowlam (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland), Jeffrey Donaldson (UUP MP for Lagan Valley)
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: Mo Mowlam, Jeffrey Donaldson
Key Words: UUP, British government, Hillsborough Declaration, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, decommissioning, IICD, Sinn Fein, power-sharing