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The Good Friday agreement of 1998 resulted from negotiations between representatives of a broad cross-section of political groups in Northern Ireland. It provided for no change in the status of the North except by majority consent; the devolution of a variety of powers to a Northern Ireland Assembly; a North-South Ministerial Council; and a British-Irish Council, which would also include representatives from other parts of the British Isles. The constitution of the Irish Republic was to be be altered to renounce its territorial claim to Northern Ireland. A referendum held in both the north and the south of the island on 22 May 1998 endorsed this agreement.
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