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including details of training and weaponry for ukraine. and 100 days in mixed reviews in brazil for president luiz inacio lula da silva s administration. let s return now to our top story. today marks 25 years since the signing of the good friday agreement an historic peace deal that largely ended violence in northern ireland. i m joined now by the former minister for northern ireland between 1997 and 1999 for the labour government led by tony blair, who chaired the talks in the lead up to the peace deal, lord paul murphy. thank you forjoining us. we will of course talking a moment about the legacy and what was achieved but it is probably worth casting our minds back to what things were like before the agreement and a deal was by no means certain, was it? talked us through what things are like in the run up to the deal. £31 through what things are like in the run-up to the deal. through what things are like in the run-up to the deal. of course, there had been 3500 run ....
George mitchell, the overall chair of the talks decided to put a deadline of easter friday 1998 and that concentrated minds tremendously. as we moved towards that date, things began to improve. but even in the very first week of the talks leading up to good friday, i still didn t think it was going to be possible. so it was uncertainty almost right up until the very end. just remind us of what it was like when you originally arrived there. i have seen comments you may before about how nothing prepares you for what you encountered, in terms of the military presence and the fortresses. i the military presence and the fortresses- the military presence and the fortresses. ., w ., , fortresses. i had never actually been to northern fortresses. i had never actually been to northern ireland - fortresses. i had never actually been to northern ireland untill fortresses. i had never actuallyj been to northern ireland untili been to northern ireland until i became in opposition deputy to mo mo ....