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Theresa Villiers meets Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan | Theresa Villiers meets Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan |
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Secretary of State Theresa Villiers will meet the new Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan later on Wednesday. | Secretary of State Theresa Villiers will meet the new Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan later on Wednesday. |
It is Mr Flanagan's first visit to Northern Ireland since becoming foreign affairs minister earlier this month. | It is Mr Flanagan's first visit to Northern Ireland since becoming foreign affairs minister earlier this month. |
He was appointed following the resignation of Eamon Gilmore. | He was appointed following the resignation of Eamon Gilmore. |
Ms Villiers is also holding meetings with the Northern Ireland parties and community representatives over the next few days. | Ms Villiers is also holding meetings with the Northern Ireland parties and community representatives over the next few days. |
Unionist leaders have called on the secretary of state to appoint a commission of inquiry into a parade dispute in north Belfast and the wider issue of contentious marches in Northern Ireland. | |
They made the call three weeks ago, as part of what they described as their "graduated response" to a Parades Commission ruling on a controversial Orange Order march that passes along north Belfast's Crumlin Road. | |
For the second year in a row, the parade was barred from returning along part of the road that separates unionist and nationalist areas on 12 July. | |
At the time, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson said the parade ruling had put the devolved political institutions at Stormont under threat. |