Interviews with David Trimble, Gerry Adams and Tony Blair for ITN on 1 July 1999
Video interviews with David Trimble, designate First Minister of Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, and Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for ITN on 1 July 1999. As multi-party talks at Stormont continued on the timing of decommissioning and the formation of a power-sharing Executive twenty-four hours after the initial 30 June deadline, Trimble, Adams and Blair set out their respective positions. One day later the British and Irish governments published ‘The Way Forward’, a document setting out a process for the formation of the Executive on 15 July and the beginning of decommissioning soon after.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 1 July 1999
Name of First Interviewee: David Trimble
Name of Second Interviewee: Gerry Adams
Name of Third Interviewee: Tony Blair
Role at time of Interview: David Trimble (designate First Minister of Northern Ireland), Gerry Adams (president of Sinn Fein), Tony Blair (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
Purpose: News
Media: Audiovisual
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Link: Watch the video
Programme/Book/Article: ITN
Time Period covered: 1998-1999
Key Individuals: David Trimble, Gerry Adams, Tony Blair
Key Words: UUP, Sinn Fein, British government, IRA, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, decommissioning, power-sharing