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On 3 December 1993, British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds met at Dublin Castle to try and hammer out their differences over Northern Ireland. After frank and often frustrating negotiations, they reached an accord that resulted in the Downing Street Declaration that same month. The British government secured the principle of consent so vital to unionists in Northern Ireland, while the Irish government got their way on self-determination in separate referendums north and south of the Irish border.