London, England, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair met in London with Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley Monday about power sharing with Northern Ireland's Assembly. Last week, Blair met with Gerry Adams, leader of the Sinn Fein, the political arm of the separatist Irish Republican Army. Sky News said Paisley is holding out on whether his party will reject or sign on to an agreement with Sinn Fein to resurrect the Assembly. Paisley has maintained there will be no agreement until the destruction of IRA weapons is backed up by photographic evidence, but Adams has refused to take such action. Paisley is also calling for disarmament to be witnessed by Protestant and Catholic clergymen along with Gen. John de Chastelain, the head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning. | I'm sure they'll come to an agreement any decade now. |
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