What about the original Agreement?

Although the St Andrews Agreement led to some changes to the operation of the institutions set up under the 1998 Agreement, it also confirmed that:

‘Both governments remain fully committed to the fundamental principles of the (1998) Agreement:

• consent for constitutional change;

• commitment to exclusively peaceful and democratic means;

• stable, inclusive, partnership government;

• a balanced institutional accommodation of the key relationships within Northern Ireland between north and south and within these islands; and

• equality and human rights …’