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DUP-Sinn Fein Stormont Talks Halted

Wed, October 18, 2006

Source: Ananova

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain has postponed a meeting of the new Programme for Government Committee at Stormont involving the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain has postponed a meeting of the new Programme for Government Committee at Stormont involving the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein.

DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley earlier pulled out of the Stormont meeting which would have seen him come face to face with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams.

The two party chiefs were due to take part in talks on a new programme for government for a future Northern Ireland power-sharing government.

The decision was confirmed in Belfast just hours before the negotiations were due to start and followed a new row over whether Sinn Fein's Mid Ulster MP and former IRA commander Martin McGuinness would swear an oath to support the police and the rule of law next month.

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Ananova