Video interview with David Andrews, former Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Jean de Chastelain, Chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, by Noel Thompson for the US-Ireland Alliance 'Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of the Good Friday Accords' on 10 April 2008. In a symposium on the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement attended by fourteen of its original negotiators, Andrews and de Chastelain discuss the final days of negotiations leading to the agreement. The US-Ireland Alliance is a non-for-profit organisation, founded in 1998, which strengthens relations between the United States and the island of Ireland.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 16 April 2008
Name of First Interviewee: David Andrews
Name of Second Interviewee: John de Chastelain
Role at time of Interview: David Andrews (Former Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs), John de Chastelain (Chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning)
Interviewer: Noel Thompson
Purpose: News, Research
Media: Audiovisual
Copyright: © US-Ireland Alliance
Link: Watch the interview
Programme/Book/Article: US-Ireland Alliance Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of the Good Friday Accords
Time Period covered: 1998-2008
Key Individuals: David Andrews, John de Chastelain, Tony Blair, George Mitchell
Key Words: Belfast Agreement/Good Friday Agreement