However, Mr Paisley has predicted that the DUP will hold the balance of unionist power in the assembly and that his party will therefore have the power to block any such move.
Mr Sarkozy has promised constitutional changes aimed at strengthening the power of the assembly.
The arms talks are a key requirement of the deal between unionists and republicans which allowed the formation of the power-sharing Assembly executive on Thursday.
It won 15 seats on five provincial assemblies, including eight seats in the important Western Province (which includes Colombo), where it holds the balance of power in the assembly.
The Solomon Islands' Western Province, unsurprisingly, wants more power for its local assembly.
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Labour won power at the last assembly election in May 2011, although it fell one seat short of an outright majority.
The party struggles to pose as an alternative to Labour, not least because the two share power in the Welsh Assembly.
We know that some Tories, notably the party's leader in the Welsh assembly, are in favour of giving the assembly more power.
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He spoke about the importance of having Labour in power in the Welsh assembly and local government in Wales, adding that "in order to provide real protection we need a Labour government in Westminster".
And second, it steals some thunder from the Scottish National Party, which is threatening to prevent Labour winning power in the Edinburgh assembly, and for which land reform has long been a cherished goal.
If the people in the Great Plains are going to be subsidised to do something, does it not make more sense to subsidise jobs in the construction and assembly of power plants and the generation of clean power rather than an unhelpful distortion in the world's agricultural markets?
Any proposed law changes would have to be within the assembly's power and comply with human rights legislation.
Boosting the assembly's power in the field would mean "key decisions" on energy policy "are made in Wales", the Tory group says.
Gerry Adams says discussing education, water charges, health and rate increases is pointless if the assembly has no power to change such matters.
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Here, said Downing Street, was the biggest development since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that gave the province its assembly and devolved power-sharing government.
This is especially important because the assembly is the power base of the LDP's coalition partner, New Komeito, which gives the party its majority.
Earlier this month, Libya's interim National Transitional Council handed power to a newly elected assembly, in the first peaceful transition in the country's modern history.
Although it recognised the assembly's power over health policy, "we do not believe that such modification of insurance policies falls within its competency", it said.
If there is no sign of decommissioning by the end of January, the party will be expected to resign as threatened from the Assembly's power-sharing executive.
The Sinn Fein deputy speaker, Francie Molloy, has gone so far as to indicate that he will not chair debates on matters over which he believes the assembly has no power.
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It includes the right of local authorities to suspend the sale of council houses, which proved a sticking point for the UK and assembly governments until power to legislate in this area was transferred to Cardiff Bay in summer 2010 after nearly three years of deliberation.
Many of the bodies are questioning whether the assembly actually has the power to abolish them.
The NI assembly has had the power to regulate expeditions and environmental matters in Antarctica - and the Foreign Office wants it back.
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Despite opposing the assembly during the referendum campaign these Tories are now saying that, in order to work properly, the assembly should get more power.
Meanwhile the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, along with seven other quangos, have begun questioning whether the assembly government has the power to abolish them.
Depending on how broadly the order was drafted the assembly could then have power to make laws affecting large areas of language policy without ever having to go back to Parliament.
But even the relatively toothless Welsh Assembly will have the power to scrutinise and alter the administration of Wales, and so give its people a greater sense of participation in their own government.
The formation of the Council follows the establishment of Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive in the Assembly after former US senator George Mitchell helped unionists and republicans to come to a deal on devolution and arms decommissioning.
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