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Interviews with Mo Mowlam, Gerry Adams and David Trimble for ITN on 16 July 1999

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Video interview with Mo Mowlam (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland), Gerry Adams (president of Sinn Fein) and David Trimble (designate First Minister of Northern Ireland) for ITN on 16 July 1999. By the summer of 1999 talks had stalled over the formation of a Northern Ireland power-sharing Executive with Sinn Fein stating that they could not deliver IRA decommissioning before the Executive met while the UUP insisted that IRA decommissioning take place before Sinn Fein entered into government. The sense of political crisis was heightened one day earlier with the non-attendance of the UUP at Stormont to nominate ministers to the Executive, the abstention of the DUP and Alliance parties from nominating and the resignation of Seamus Mallon as designate deputy First Minister.In these interviews Mowlam, Adams and Trimble discuss the potential to overcome the current impasse.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 16 July 1999

Name of First Interviewee: Mo Mowlam

Name of Second Interviewee: Gerry Adams

Name of Third Interviewee: David Trimble

Role at time of Interview: Mo Mowlam (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland), Gerry Adams (President of Sinn Fein), David Trimble (designate First Minister of Northern Ireland) 

Purpose: News

Media: Audiovisual

Copyright: ©2013 ITN All rights reserved

Link: Watch the interview

Programme/Book/Article: ITN

Time Period covered: 1998-1999

Key Individuals: Mo Mowlam, Gerry Adams, David Trimble, George Mitchell

Key Words: Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Fein, UUP, decommissioning

 

 

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