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Tue 09 Sep 2008SF and DUP take devolution row to Labour conference
DUP JUNIOR Minister Jeffrey Donaldson and Sinn Féin MP Pat Doherty clashed on the fringe of the British Labour party conference yesterday over a continuing block on meetings of the Stormont Executive and the failure to agree a timetable for the devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Mr Donaldson repeated an earlier suggestion that the DUP might seek a judgment, possibly by the International Monitoring Commission (IMC), on whether Sinn Féin Ministers are in breach of their legal obligations.
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