The joint framework document is an attempt at peace set in 1995 with the British and Irish governments. One of the ideas is to set up a new government(parliament) for Northern ireland so it can meet regulary with the Southern council. In these meetings they would discuss a whole range of issues of both sides common intrests. Future peace talks would be assisted by the ira on the conditon that they decomisoned all of their weapons. But the IRA said they could not do this as the are an army and they might need them incase something happened such as a war.
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