Video interviews with Arlene Foster, (Honorary Secretary on the Ulster Unionist Council), Peter Weir (UUP MLA for North Down) and William Ross (UUP MP for East Londonderry), for ITN on 14 July 1999. By the summer of 1999 talks had stalled over the formation of a Northern Ireland power-sharing Executive with Sinn Fein stating that they could not deliver IRA decommissioning before the Executive met while the UUP insisted that IRA decommissioning should begin before Sinn Fein entered into government. On the evening before the sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly to nominate ministers to the Executive the UUP executive met to decide party policy. Foster, Weir and Ross discuss their party’s attitudes towards power-sharing, decommissioning and Trimble’s leadership of the UUP.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 14 July 1999
Name of First Interviewee: Arlene Foster
Name of Second Interviewee: Peter Weir
Name of Third Interviewee: William Ross
Role at time of Interview: Arlene Foster, (Honorary Secretary on the Ulster Unionist Council), Peter Weir (UUP MLA for North Down) and William Ross (UUP MP for East Londonderry)
Purpose: News
Media: Audiovisual
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Link: Watch the interview
Programme/Book/Article: ITN
Time Period covered: 1998-1999
Key Individuals: Arlene Foster, Peter Weir, William Ross
Key Words: UUP, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, UUP, decommissioning, IRA, power-sharing, paramilitary, failsafe, The Way Forward, IICD