Northern Ireland: devolution crisis talks: Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen press conference

Northern Ireland: devolution crisis talks: Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen press conference; Brown press conference SOT- On the question of parades, we believe there is a reasonable basis for agreement, other outstanding issues from St Andrews, like the Irish language, the North South cooperation, matters are moving forward and can move forward, so on the issues we believe there is a reasonable prospect of a reasonable agreement, what we've now asked is that the parties go away and look at the proposals in detail...we want to report back from Deputy First Minister and the First Minister on Friday morning, ... Irish Foreign Minister and Sean Woodward will be here available as ministers for both governments to talk to the parties, on Friday morning we will assess what progress has been made, if we judge that insubstantial progress has been made we will publish our own proposals for a resolution of these issues, we believe we have proposals that are reasonable ... far better that the parties themselves agree the proposals and that they talk and work out the details, but ... if we get a report back that it is not satisfactory ... we publish our proposals ... We have a duty to the people of Northern Ireland, historic issues that have divided the communities in the past, we believe we can move forward to agreement on these things ... full devolution... Settlement will be sending important message to those people of violence who seek to disrupt the peace process ...