Belfast Agreement
The Belfast Agreement, or Good Friday Agreement, was signed in Belfast on 10 April 1998 (Good Friday) by the British and Irish governments and endorsed by most Northern Ireland political parties.
It contained provisions for a government involving both Catholics and Protestants, whose traditional aspirations, expressed as Republicanism and Unionism, had often clashed over the years. It recognized the legitimacy of those aspirations. One of the provisions of the agreement was that the parties agree to collectively use their influence to achieve decommissioning within two years - by May 2000.
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