As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.
David TrimbleI was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeting. I went to the meeting. It was just me and John Major.What Major said to me was this: "If you were in my shoes, what would you do?". He wasn't asking me what a unionist should do, but what he should do. And I knew that I had to give him a sensible answer.
David TrimbleThere was a process in place at that time - the Downing Street Declaration of December 1993 - which set out the terms and conditions under which people who had been involved in paramilitary activity could come into the political process.
David TrimbleWe had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right.
David Trimble