TNA Catalogue Ref: PREM 49/412
NORTHERN IRELAND: LETTERS OF CONGRATULATIONS FROM
HEADS OF STATE AND VIPs (As at 27 April)
Khalifa Bin Sulman AL KHALIFA
Prime Minister of Bahrain
Kofi ANNAN
Secretary General of the United Nations
Emeka ANYAOKU
Commonwealth Secretary-General
Paddy ASHDOWN MP
Norman BAKER MP
Ehud BARAK
Chairman, The Israeli Labor Party
Ann BARRETT
David BLUNKETT MP
Kjell Magne BONDEVIK
Prime Minister of Norway
Melvyn BRAGG
Jerzy BUZEK
Prime Minister of Poland
Rafael CALDERA
President of Venezuela
Jim CALLAGHAN
Roger CASALE MP
Jacques CHIRAC
President of France
Vannino CHITI
Jean CHRETIEN
Prime Minister of Canada
Charles CLARKE MP
Sir Patrick CORMACK MP
Flavio COTTI
Swiss Federal Council
Maneck DALAL [PS]
Sibusiso DLAMINI
Prime Minister of Switzerland
Archbishop of DUBLIN (Empey)
Laurent FABIUS
French National Assembly
Pamela GORDON
Premier of Bermuda
Ryutaro HASHIMOTO
Prime Minister of Japan
Sheikh HASINA Wazed
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
King HASSAN
Morocco
Edward HEATH
(Did not write to PM but issued statement to Press Association)
Clive HOLLICK
John HOWARD
Prime Minister of Australia
King HUSSEIN
Jordan
Lord JAKOBOVITS
Greville JANNER
Lionel JOSPIN
Prime Minister of France
Frank JUDD
Neil KINNOCK [NB: PM had replied in his own hand]
Wim KOK
Prime Minister of The Netherlands
Chandrika Bandarnaike KUMARATUNGA
President of Sri Lanka
Mr LEE Kuan Yew
Senior Minister of Singapore
Frederico MAYOR
UNESCO
Pierre MAUROY
Paddy MAYHEW
Carlos MENEM
President of Argentina
Yehudi MENUHIN
Lennart MERI
President of the Republic of Estonia
Mohamed Hosni MUBARAK
President of Egypt
Ntsu MOKHEHLE
Prime Minister of Lesotho
Swraj PAUL
Jordi PUJOL
President of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia
Giles RADICE MP
Poul RASMUSSEN
Prime Minister of Denmark
George Robertson MP
Dr Alfred SANT
Prime Minister of Malta
Jenny SHIPLEY
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Jeremy THORPE
Cecil WALKER MP
James T WALSH
Friends of Ireland
Show slide 3 and hand out the introductory source TNA Catalogue Ref: PREM 49/412 – A letter form US Senator George Mitchell to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, April 1998.
Following the model taught in the previous lesson about the Downing Street Declaration ask students to analyse the source for Content, Context, Attitudes and How things work. Use slide 4 to help them.
Similarly show them the lists of names on the TNA Catalogue Ref: PREM 49/412 – Northern Ireland Letters of Congratulations from Heads of States and VIPs, (As of 27 April).
Discuss with students whether these documents prove that the Agreement was a success and why (or why not).
Complete this opening activity by discussing the following statements shown on slide 7 and deciding if you Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree or Strongly Disagree.
- The documents have proved to me that the Agreement was a success.
- They prove that many important politicians believed that the Agreement was a success.
- The documents actually prove that the Agreement was a failure.
- The documents don’t prove anything at all.
- The documents suggest the Agreement was a success but they do not prove it.
- It is a reasonable theory that the Agreement was a success but I would need more supporting evidence to convince me.