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Almost a year before the DUP appointed its first Executive ministers, the NIO privately knew Ian Paisley’s party was planning to take up the positions regardless of whether the IRA decommissioned, declassified government files reveal.

A meeting David Trimble had with residents was said to be ‘instrumental in creating the climate for a discontinuation of the protest’.

A meeting David Trimble had with residents was said to be ‘instrumental in creating the climate for a discontinuation of the protest’.

State papers: Canadian diplomat could not understand how ‘someone of Gerry Adams’s intellect’ failed to recognise benefits to Sinn Féin of decommissioning

State papers: Newly-released files show how the signatories to the Belfast Agreement came to view it as the least worst option

A meeting David Trimble had with residents was said to be ‘instrumental in creating the climate for a discontinuation of the protest’.

The briefing said that Ken Maginnis was ‘in many ways the most attractive (in personal terms) of the UUP upper echelon’.

The briefing said that Ken Maginnis was ‘in many ways the most attractive (in personal terms) of the UUP upper echelon’.

The briefing said that Ken Maginnis was ‘in many ways the most attractive (in personal terms) of the UUP upper echelon’.

State papers published this week include confidential records showing what civil servants really thought about the North’s political leaders