The former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in helping to achieve the Good Friday Agreements, has died aged 77 after a short illness.
David Trimble, former chief minister of Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2002 and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998, died Monday at the age of 77 after a “short-term illness”.
Trimble led the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1995 to 2005 and was instrumental in the Good Friday Agreements of 1998, the peace agreement that ended the nationalist armed conflict in Northern Ireland. In fact, his dedication, along with the then leader of the Ulster Social Democratic Party, John Hume, helped him receive the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.” .”
“It is with great sadness that Lord Trimble’s family announce that he passed away peacefully earlier today after a short illness,” UUP said in a statement from the BBC.
The formation’s current leader, Doug Beattie, has described Trimble as “a man of courage and vision,” who has praised his decision to “seize the opportunity for peace when it presented itself” to end ” decades of violence that devastated their loved one”. Northern Ireland.” “He will always be associated with the leadership he showed in the negotiations leading to the 1998 Belfast Agreement – the name by which the Good Friday Agreements are also known -,” Beattie wrote on social media.
Source: La Verdad
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