Good Friday Agreement

Published April 10, 1998

Also known as the Belfast Agreement, this agreement was part of the peace plan in Northern Ireland. It provided for Northern Ireland to be run by a elected assembly overseen by an executive committee of both Unionists and Nationalists. Among its many provisions, it also set up a human rights commission, a plan for decommission ofparamilitary weapons, and ended the Irish Republic's claim to Northern Ireland by modifying its constitution.

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