Having reneged on their Coalition agreement commitment to vote through the boundary changes, the Lib Dems would look pretty silly if they u-turned on their u-turn.

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Mr McGuinness's Sinn Fein party has accused Mr Poots of holding up agreement by failing to respect the boundary commission's independence and attempting to gerrymander the new boundaries.

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The United States and the Soviet Union are expected to sign a U.S.-Soviet Maritime Agreement at the Summit which will establish a boundary-line between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Bering Straits.

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Mr Bashir let the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the main southern group, reshuffle its ministers, but it refused to rejoin the government unless the north implemented its side of the agreement on issues such as troop withdrawal and boundary demarcations.

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