Why the UUP signed the Good Friday Agreement
- Created by: Olivia O'Neill
- Created on: 13-05-15 17:54
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- Why did UUP sign up to GFA?
- Believed it would strengthen the Union between GB and NI and provide a stable government for NI
- Partnership Government
- would govern in interests of ALL the people of NI
- Could make Union more attractive to nationalist minority
- Refusing to share power would deepen minority's feeling of alienation
- Acceptance of PSNI would help political stability
- UUP accepting new police service which would be endorsed and joined by nationalist community would help political relations
- Recognised that if RUC was not reformed Nationalists would not accept or join it
- Acceptance of Human Rights and Equality Agenda would strengthen Union
- Agenda highlighted in the GFA would address Nationalists sense of alienation
- Nationalists felt discriminated against by Unionist majority
- IRA pledged to decommiss-ion weapons as part of GFA
- considered to be the main 'physical threat' to NI
- IRA decommisioned all weapons between 1998 and 2005
- Trimble credits this to the signing of the GFA
- UUP then accepted under the terms of the GFA the release of Republican prisoners
- Encouraged Republicans to take part in parliamentary politics
- Rejecting the GFA would encourage Blair Govt to impose 'Joint Stewardship' on NI
- To be governed jointly by London and Dublin
- By signing GFA, NI would be more secure within the Union and bring about political stability
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