UNITED KINGDOM: FORMER U.S. SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL AND CANADIAN FORCES GENERAL JOHN DE CHASTELAIN ARE HONOURED FOR THEIR NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE ACCORD EFFORTS
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UNITED KINGDOM: FORMER U.S. SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL AND CANADIAN FORCES GENERAL JOHN DE CHASTELAIN ARE HONOURED FOR THEIR NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE ACCORD EFFORTS
- Title: UNITED KINGDOM: FORMER U.S. SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL AND CANADIAN FORCES GENERAL JOHN DE CHASTELAIN ARE HONOURED FOR THEIR NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE ACCORD EFFORTS
- Date: 14th July 1999
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND UNITED KINGDOM, (JULY 14, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS CANADIAN EMBASSY/ MV FLAG (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER US SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL SAYING: "I think all concerned are trying very hard in extremely difficult circumstances and I hope very much that when they get togwther again, whenever that is, that they'll be able to move foward". 0.28 3. CU MEDIA 0.32 4. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) CANADIAN FORCES GENERAL JOHN DE CHASTELAIN SAYING: "Quite clearly we would have liked to have seen a different result today," 0.41 5. ZOOM OUT MITCHELL DISPLAYING HIS MEDAL AS A KNIGHT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 0.50 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 29th July 1999 13:00
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- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND UNITED KINGDOM
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- Country: United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVAE3V0NGNQD4J7L1BCIEN7XF894
- Story Text: The "three wise men" who brokered Northern Ireland's
historic peace accord have been honoured by Britain's Queen
Elizabeth, the day their hard-won achievement fell apart.
Former U.S.Senator George Mitchell, who chaired
marathon peace talks in Northern Ireland last year, was given
an honorary knighthood at Buckingham Palace in London.
Mitchell was honoured together with his two co-chairmen,
Canadian Forces General John de Chastelain and former Finnish
Prime Minister Harri Holkeri.
As the three architects of peace received their awards,
Northern Ireland's main Protestant party pulled out of the
provincial assembly they helped create, forcing Britain to
launch a formal review of the tattered peace process.
Both Mitchell and de Chastelain denied their work to bring
peace to Northern Ireland had been dealt a death blow.
De Chastelain, head of Northern Ireland's disarmament
commission, has been working for months to try to take the
guns out the guerrilla conflict.
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