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| Sinn Fein board get talks update | Sinn Fein board get talks update |
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| Martin McGuinness will give a report on the state of the policing and justice negotiations to the Sinn Fein officer board on Thursday. | Martin McGuinness will give a report on the state of the policing and justice negotiations to the Sinn Fein officer board on Thursday. |
| Talks about resolving the issues blocking a deal are to resume later. | Talks about resolving the issues blocking a deal are to resume later. |
| DUP and Sinn Fein negotiating teams spent most of Wednesday in talks in an attempt to resolve the impasse. | DUP and Sinn Fein negotiating teams spent most of Wednesday in talks in an attempt to resolve the impasse. |
| Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has denied they have set a deadline, but was clearly unhappy with the time it was taking to find a solution. | Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has denied they have set a deadline, but was clearly unhappy with the time it was taking to find a solution. |
| It is understood that parading was one of the bigger issues included for discussion on position papers passed between the parties. | It is understood that parading was one of the bigger issues included for discussion on position papers passed between the parties. |
| The question of how to deal with Orange Order parades is believed to be a sticking point between the parties, with Sinn Fein resisting DUP efforts to replace the Parades Commission. | The question of how to deal with Orange Order parades is believed to be a sticking point between the parties, with Sinn Fein resisting DUP efforts to replace the Parades Commission. |
| 'Nuclear option' | |
| The DUP wants an alternative way to adjudicate on contentious marches along the lines of interim proposals produced by a group headed by Lord Ashdown. | The DUP wants an alternative way to adjudicate on contentious marches along the lines of interim proposals produced by a group headed by Lord Ashdown. |
| It is thought the DUP and Sinn Fein could try to reach a compromise position or agree to resolve the issue at a future date. | It is thought the DUP and Sinn Fein could try to reach a compromise position or agree to resolve the issue at a future date. |
| BBC Northern Ireland political correspondent Martina Purdy said that if the Sinn Fein officers decide to call a twice-postponed party executive meeting that would be "seen as at least a cry for help for London and Dublin to intervene." | |
| However she added that Sinn Fein was not yet at the point of taking the "nuclear option" of pulling Mr McGuinness out of the deputy first minister post. |