The British government seemed to favour that option too: it hopes that after a summer break tempers might have cooled and the IRA's decommissioning scheme will progress in a way that begins to wear down or reduce unionist suspicion.The alternative which Sinn Fein favours would be to dissolve the Assembly and call new elections, which would probably be held in October.
In the first comment No 10 has made on a specific release, a spokesman noted grimly that Mr Magee's release had come despite the lack of progress on decommissioning.
And no progress on decommissioning IRA weapons meant that this weekend, John Reid, the Northern Ireland secretary, was due to suspend the devolved Assembly.The timetable goes back to the resignation in July of David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionists, as First Minister of the Assembly.
The province's fledgling coalition government is in danger of collapsing as Mr Trimble is under severe pressure from hardliners within his own party to pull out of power-sharing with Sinn Fein unless the IRA makes progress on weapons decommissioning.
But the same sources now say that while the three main pro-agreement parties refused to endorse the London/Dublin blueprint on how to deal with the main stumbling blocks of decommissioning, policing and demilitarisation, enough progress has been made for the two governments to believe consensus can be reached soon.
Three years after an earthquake and tsunami knocked out its cooling system and triggered a triple reactor meltdown, TEPCO is keen to show that progress is being made on decommissioning the plant.
Well, their intransigence over arms decommissioning led to them becoming Northern Ireland's biggest party after the treacle-slow progress post-agreement led to Sinn Fein and the DUP becoming the biggest parties.
Decommissioning of some arms would take place during the talks under the supervision of an independent commission, with progress "across the entire spectrum of the negotiations, including decommissioning" reviewed every two months.
To make that, and progress on substantive political issues, more likely he had demanded that the multi-party talks resolve the problem of decommissioning terrorist weapons, also by the end of this month.
Initially, the CAMHS application proceeded as if: "...new service developments could only be achieved through decommissioning current services to fund reinvestment in new services, or through no cost whole system redesign....as the exercise progressed, service reviews conducted at other levels of CAMHS freed up potential resources for investment" [ 14].
The stumbling block remains decommissioning.
