It's exactly the same when people sign a declaration of peace, the Belfast Agreement when it was signed was not the end, it was the beginning of a long period of struggle which requires just as much determination from all of us to see it succeed and I believe there is a will there, certainly among the pro-agreement parties to make this succeed.

BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Dr John Reid MP, Secretary for Northern Ireland

His aspirations foundered on the rocks of British and French colonial ambition, notably the twin reefs of the notorious Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 and the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

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Indeed the smaller Northern Ireland parties, such as the cross-community Alliance Party and the Women's Coalition, belatedly announced that the April 1st declaration was an unacceptable rewriting of the 1998 agreement by the governments.

ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland

Speaking before the vote, the representatives of Brazil and Turkey said they had voted against the text because it ran against their efforts to bring about a negotiated solution through the agreement on the Tehran Research Reactor and the related Tehran Declaration of 17 May, which provided a new opportunity for diplomacy.

UN: Security Council

There is no mutual cease-fire agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians -- each side has made its own unilateral declaration of a cease-fire.

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Al-Maliki also stressed that approving an agreement between the countries would require the approval of the Iraqi parliament and that the declaration of principles mentions national sovereignty as a basis for negotiations.

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