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Warning on power deal.(News)
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Birmingham Mail (England)
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September 15, 2006
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IF NORTHERN Ireland power-sharing is not achieved by the November 24 deadline, it will confine parties to "virtual politics", Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern has warned.
Northern Secretary Peter Hain said that any new attempts to revisit devolution may not take place before the British General Election due in 2009.
However Mr Ahern, speaking in Derry before talks with SDLP leader Mark Durkan, said he believed any political progress would be pushed further into the future.
He said: "My own assessment is that it could be even longer. The bottom line is this ...