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Six appointed to parading group Two-week deadline on parade talks
(about 13 hours later)
The office of the first and deputy first minister have confirmed who will be on a working group to examine the issue of parading. Six assembly members - three from the DUP and three from Sinn Fein - are to meet later to examine the issue of parading.
Junior Minister Gerry Kelly will be joined by Jeffrey Donaldson, Stephen Moutray, Nelson McCausland, Michelle Gildernew and John O'Dowd. Jeffrey Donaldson, Stephen Moutray, Nelson McCausland from the DUP will meet Gerry Kelly, Michelle Gildernew and John O'Dowd from Sinn Fein.
The group has three weeks to come up with agreed outcomes which are capable of achieving cross community support. The group has until 23 February to come up with agreed outcomes capable of achieving cross-community support.
The first and deputy first ministers have agreed to support the outcomes. Alban Maginness, SDLP, said his party should have been included.
"We have talked constantly about democratic inclusion. That is the ethos of the Good Friday Agreement. If that is what the first and deputy first ministers are committed to, then it is a very strange omission," he said.
'Cross-community'
Sinn Fein's John O'Dowd insisted no-one was being excluded from the process.
"It would be perfectly natural for Sinn Fein and the DUP to prepare a report for the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister to be handed over to the Assembly," he said.
"The Assembly committee dealing with this is chaired by the Ulster Unionist Party and made up of all the parties - the Assembly itself has to vote on this on a cross-community basis."
The DUP's Nelson McCausland said it was important to take "a positive and constructive approach" to the process.
"I believe the Parades Commission has been part of the problem rather than the solution and what we are looking for is a new start," he said.
"We want a new system that will involve a greater emphasis on local accommodation, a better framework for mediation and a more acceptable system of adjudication - lot of the adjudications up to now were incoherent and inconsistent."
Orange Order historian Clifford Smyth said much of the groundwork had already been done in the review of parading chaired by Lord Ashdown.
"It's possible that they're building on other men's foundations, so this short deadline can be set because they're merely tweaking what's already known to be in the background," he said.
'Local solutions'
The first and deputy first ministers have agreed to support the outcomes of the parading discussions.
The Hillsborough Agreement said it recognised the need for "local people providing local solutions".The Hillsborough Agreement said it recognised the need for "local people providing local solutions".
It also said that any framework should reflect "respect for the rights of those who parade, and respect for the rights of those who live in areas through which they seek to parade." It also said that any framework should reflect "respect for the rights of those who parade, and respect for the rights of those who live in areas through which they seek to parade".
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The first and deputy first minister have said they will support all necessary steps in the Assembly to ensure that the Bill completes all stages before the end of 2010. The first and deputy first ministers have said they will support all necessary steps in the Assembly to ensure that the Bill completes all stages before the end of 2010.