Ulster Unionists advised US government ‘not to humiliate’ Ian Paisley
Belfast 1994 archives: Gerry Adams ‘on short leash and dispensable’, said UUP MP
David Trimble and Ken Maginnis of the Ulster Unionist Party told the US government “it was important not to humiliate [Ian Paisley] any further”. Photograph: Michael Crabtree/Reuters
The Ulster Unionist Party gave the US government advice on how to handle Ian Paisley saying “it was important not to humiliate” the Democratic Unionist Party leader as Northern Ireland edged towards a settlement.
Declassified files released in Belfast detail an early meeting between an Ulster Unionist delegation, led by David Trimble, and president Bill Clinton’s Northern Ireland adviser Nancy Soderberg in September 1994.