: Video interviews with Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, and Ken Maginnis, UUP MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, for ITN on 2 July 1999. As multi-party talks at Stormont continued on the timing of decommissioning and the formation of a power-sharing Executive over twenty-four hours after the initial 30 June deadline, Trimble and Adams set out their respective positions. Later that day 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: 2 July 1999
Name of First Interviewee: Gerry Adams
Name of Second Interviewee: Ken Maginnis
Role at time of Interview: Gerry Adams (president of Sinn Fein), Ken Maginnis (UUP MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone)
Purpose: News
Media: Audiovisual
Copyright: ©2013 ITN All rights reserved
Link: Watch the video
Programme/Book/Article: ITN
Time Period covered: 1998-1999
Key Individuals: Gerry Adams, Ken Maginnis
Key Words: UUP, Sinn Fein, British government, IRA, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, decommissioning, power-sharing