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UK and Ireland restate desire to get N.Ireland executive running by Oct. 28

Tractors drive past an exit sign and a road sign for Belfast on the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, in Jonesborough, Northern Ireland, May 19, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Britain and Ireland on Friday restated their desire to get the Northern Ireland executive, back up and running by Oct. 28, a joint communique issued following an inter-governmental conference said.

Stalemate over an agreement between Britain and the European Union on post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland has been blocking the formation of a new executive, which runs the British province's devolved power-sharing administration, since elections there in May.

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