David Trimble, former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland honored with a Nobel Peace Prize for having worked for reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics in the British province, died Monday at the age of 77, announced the unionist party of 'Ulster.

"It is with great sadness that the family of Lord Trimble announces that he died earlier today after a short illness," the party said in a statement.

A man of “courage and vision”

This Protestant jurist who entered politics in the early 1970s in the ranks of the unionist Vanguard party, close to the paramilitaries, helped shape, a quarter of a century later, the Good Friday Peace Agreement with the late Catholic John Hume, joint Nobel laureate.

He led the first power-sharing government resulting from this agreement which settled three decades of bloody clashes between Republicans, mainly Catholics and supporters of the reunification of Ireland, and Unionists, mainly Protestants and defenders of the maintenance of the province. in the British Crown.

“David Trimble was a man of courage and vision.

He chose to seize the opportunity for peace when it presented itself and sought to end the decades of violence that plagued his beloved Northern Ireland,” responded Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug beatie.

“Very sad news.

David Trimble was a prominent figure in Northern Irish and British politics,” reacted British Opposition Leader Keir Starmer.

Brexit supporter

After rubbing shoulders with the extremists of Vanguard, David Trimble joined the Ulster Unionist Party (UPP) in 1978 and took over as its leader in 1995, five years after his first term as a member of the British Parliament in London.

In the fall of 1997, after the ceasefire of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), he was the first Unionist official to initiate dialogue with the Republicans of Sinn Fein, the political branch of the IRA.

A supporter of Brexit, he attacked the Northern Irish protocol last year, challenging the legality of the agreement supposed to govern relations between the British province and the Republic of Ireland, a member of the European Union.

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