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Hain to deliver Commons statement Adams in post-talks Blair meeting
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Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain is to give a Commons statement on the outcome of last week's St Andrews talks on restoring devolution. Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has met Prime Minister Tony Blair in London.
Mr Hain has said he is confident Sinn Fein and the DUP will be together in government. It is thought the discussions touched on the shape of the economic package to accompany last week's St Andrews Agreement.
A roadmap to restore devolution to Northern Ireland was revealed with a deadline of 26 March 2007 for a new executive after talks in St Andrews. And Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain is to give a Commons statement on the outcome of last week's talks on restoring devolution.
Mr Hain described the talks as an "astonishing breakthrough". Sinn Fein and Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists have until 10 November to respond to the proposed deal.
However, Ian Paisley said the DUP would not sit in government with Sinn Fein until they had delivered on policing. The roadmap to restore devolution to Northern Ireland was revealed with a deadline of 26 March 2007 for a new executive after talks in Scotland.
"Let no-one be deceived by statements from the secretary of state that there will be any move by myself or the DUP to enter into any government until Sinn Fein has delivered up front on policing," he said. Republicans have called for a £1bn investment package to accompany a deal.
"I am confident we can get there because people know we are for real Peter Hain It is believed Treasury officials have already held discussions with their counterparts in the Irish Department of Finance about the package.
"What is more the final say on any of these arrangements will be with the people of Northern Ireland." The Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended on 14 October 2002 amid allegations of a republican spy ring at Stormont.
Northern Ireland's parties have until 10 November to respond to the plan, and if they agree with it a first minister and deputy first minister would be nominated on 24 November. The court case that followed collapsed and one of those charged, Denis Donaldson, later admitted working as a British agent.
It follows three days of multi-party talks in Scotland. Direct rule from London was restored in October 2002 and has been in place since.
'Clear deadline'
Mr Hain said just 48 hours earlier people could not bring themselves to believe Mr Paisley and Martin McGuinness would sit together in government.
Mr Hain said: "What we now have in prospect is the nomination, as quickly as November 24, of Ian Paisley the DUP leader as first minister, and Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein deputy leader and former IRA member, as deputy first minister.
"That is an extraordinary thing that nobody expected to happen within a month or so.
"Then, following consulting the electorate either by referendum or by an election, the introduction of the establishment of sustainable self-government from March next year."
Mr Hain is expected to deliver his statement in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon.