That is not to say that the new drugs being presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Orlando, Fla.

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Yet patience will not be infinite, and that is why the peace plan, incomplete as it is, is being presented for signing now.

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The key would be that the agenda for coming weeks was presented as a voteable motion - so MPs who were unhappy that not enough time was being devoted to some bill or debate could attempt to amend it.

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