... ireland/2927845.stm ) However it was at that time that an agreement was reached with both leaders of the British and Irish Governments, John Major and John Bruton, who had only recently taken up the role as Taoiseach, that Mitchell would chair the International Commission on Disarmament of Paramilitary groups ... the American ambassador to Ireland was one of the highest positions an American could hold except for the Presidency of the United States. In September 1993 John Hume and Gerry Adams issued a statement to outline the Hume/Adams initiative the goal of which was the creation of a...

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