St Andrews Agreement

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The St Andrews Agreement ( English St Andrews Agreement , Irish Comhaontú Chill Rímhinn ) is an agreement between the Government of the Republic of Ireland , the Government of Great Britain and the parties in Northern Ireland from 2006. It led to the re-establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly with the election on March 7, 2007 .

procedure

On October 14, 2002, the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended because the Protestant parties accused the IRA-affiliated Catholic Sinn Féin that the paramilitary IRA had not yet fully disarmed itself and that members of Sinn Féin were also spying for the IRA. After tough negotiations between the Government of the Republic of Ireland and the Government of Great Britain with the participation of the parties in Northern Ireland in St Andrews , Scotland , after an agreement in November 2006, the members of the Northern Ireland Assembly met again to officially sign the St Andrews Agreement named negotiation result to be involved. On the basis of this agreement, new elections took place in Northern Ireland on March 7, 2007, and self-government was restored on March 26 with the meeting of MPs.

See also

Other contracts between Great Britain and Ireland:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full text of the St Andrews Agreement (English).
  2. ↑ Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016. The National Archives, 2016, accessed on January 18, 2017 .