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The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) or Belfast Agreement ((アイルランド語:Comhaontú Bhéal Feirste) or ''Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta''; Ulster-Scots: ''Bilfawst Greeance'' or ''Guid Friday Greeance'')〔(North-South Ministerial Council: Annual Report (2001) in Ulster Scots )〕 was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. Northern Ireland's present devolved system of government is based on the Agreement. The Agreement also created a number of institutions between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The Agreement is made up of two inter-related documents, both agreed in Belfast on Good Friday, 10 April 1998: # a multi-party agreement by most of Northern Ireland's political parties; # an international agreement between the British and Irish governments (the British-Irish Agreement). The Agreement set out a complex series of provisions relating to a number of areas including: * The status and system of government of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom. (Strand 1) * The relationship between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. (Strand 2) * The relationship between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. (Strand 3) Issues relating to civil and cultural rights, decommissioning of weapons, justice and policing were central to the Agreement. The Agreement was approved by voters across the island of Ireland in two referendums held on 22 May 1998. In Northern Ireland, voters were asked whether they supported the multi-party agreement. In the Republic of Ireland, voters were asked whether they would allow the state to sign the agreement and allow necessary constitutional changes to facilitate it. The people of both jurisdictions needed to approve the Agreement in order to give effect to it. The British-Irish Agreement came into force on 2 December 1999. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was the only major political group in Northern Ireland to oppose the Good Friday Agreement. ==Parties and structure== The Agreement was made between the British and Irish governments and eight political parties or groupings from Northern Ireland: the Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Sinn Féin, the Alliance Party, the Progressive Unionist Party, the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, the Ulster Democratic Party and Labour. The Agreement comprises two elements: * the legal agreement between the two governments, signed by the leaders of the two governments; and * a more substantial agreement between the eight political parties and the two governments. The former text has just four articles; it is that short text that is the legal agreement, but it incorporates in its schedules the latter agreement.〔 Technically, this scheduled agreement can be distinguished as the ''Multi-Party Agreement'', as opposed to the Belfast Agreement itself.〔 The vague wording of some of the provisions, described as "constructive ambiguity",〔Aughey, Arthur: ''The politics of Northern Ireland: beyond the Belfast Agreement''. Routledge, 2005, p. 148. ISBN 0-415-32788-1〕 helped ensure acceptance of the agreement and served to postpone debate on some of the more contentious issues. Most notably these included paramilitary decommissioning, police reform and the normalisation of Northern Ireland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Good Friday Agreement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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